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| '''<span style="color:#A40000">Drive the Changing-through thus:</span>'''
 
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When you come to him with the pre-fencing, then hew in above strongly. If he then hews against your sword and not to your body, then let the point go with the hew through his sword below between you before he binds on your sword, and stab into the other side to his breast. If he becomes aware of the stab and drives quickly after the stab with the sword with parrying, then Change-through yet again, and always do that when he drives after the sword with parrying.
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When you come to him with the pre-fencing, then hew in above strongly. If he then hews against your sword and not to your body, then let the point go with the hew through his sword, below between you, before he binds on your sword, and stab into the other side to his breast. If he becomes aware of the stab and drives quickly after the stab with the sword with parrying, then Change-through yet again, and always do that when he drives after the sword with parrying.
 
| '''<span style="color:#A40000">Die durchwechsel treib Also</span>'''
 
| '''<span style="color:#A40000">Die durchwechsel treib Also</span>'''
 
Wenn dw mit dem zw° uechten zw Im kumpst So haw im oben starck ein hawt er denn wider gegen dir zw° dem swert vnd nicht zu° dem leib So lass den ort mit dem haw vnden durch sein swert wischen ee wenn er dir an das swert pindt vnd stich Im zw° anderñ seittñ zw der prust wirt er denn des stichs gewar vnd vert mit dem swert dem stich pald nach mit vor satzu~g So wechsel aber durch vnd das thue albeg wenn er dir mit vor setzen nach dem swert vert
 
Wenn dw mit dem zw° uechten zw Im kumpst So haw im oben starck ein hawt er denn wider gegen dir zw° dem swert vnd nicht zu° dem leib So lass den ort mit dem haw vnden durch sein swert wischen ee wenn er dir an das swert pindt vnd stich Im zw° anderñ seittñ zw der prust wirt er denn des stichs gewar vnd vert mit dem swert dem stich pald nach mit vor satzu~g So wechsel aber durch vnd das thue albeg wenn er dir mit vor setzen nach dem swert vert

Revision as of 16:32, 3 November 2013

Gloss and Interpretation of
the Record of the Long Sword
die gloss und die auslegung der zettel des langen schwert
Author(s) Unknown
Ascribed to Pseudo-Peter von Danzig
Illustrated by Unknown
Date before 1452
Genre
Language Early New High German
Archetype(s) Hypothetical
Manuscript(s)
First Printed
English Edition
Tobler, 2010
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations

"Pseudo-Peter von Danzig" is the name given to an anonymous late 14th or early 15th century German fencing master.[1] Some time before the creation of the Codex 44.A.8 in 1452, he authored a gloss of Johannes Liechtenauer's record which would go on to become the most widespread in the tradition. While his identity remains unknown, it is possible that he was in fact Jud Lew or Sigmund Schining ein Ringeck, both of whose glosses show strong similarities to the work. On the other hand, the introduction to the Rome version of the text—the oldest currently extant—might be construed as attributing it to Liechtenauer himself.

Early on in its history, this text seems to have split into two primary branches. The first branch, found in the Rome (1452), Krakow (1510-20), and Augsburg (1564) versions, has slightly longer descriptions and is always accompanied by illustrations. The second branch, appearing first in the Augsburg (1450s) and used in all extant versions except the three listed above, has shorter descriptions but a number of additional devices (some of which seem to be drawn directly from Ringeck's gloss).

Treatise

In order to achieve a greater degree of organization and readability, Liechtenauer's verse has been separated into its proper couplets in this presentation. The verse is laid out this way in the Salzburg version, but in most of the other manuscripts it is included inline.

Additional Resources

References

  1. This name stems from the false assumption of many 20th century writers identifying him with Peter von Danzig zum Ingolstadt.