Case Study:Schaydelhaw

Images from Glasgow and Goliath	Sigmund ain Ringeck by Christian Trosclair	Images from Cluny	Hans Seydenfaden von Erfurt by Christian Trosclair
	[54] This is the text and the gloss about the parter, and about the plays thereof 63 The Parter  Is a danger to the face. 64 With its turn  The chest is quickly threatened. Gloss. Here note the parter is really dangerous to the face and to the chest; deploy it thusly: When he stands against you in the guard [of] the fool, hew above with the long edge, down from your part to his head, and with the hew remain high with the arms and if he displaces, so hang-in to him with the point, with the long edge above his hilt, and thrust him to the face (as stands pictured hereafter next to this).		The squinter with scalper with it's plays 63 The scalper  is a threat to the face. 64 With it's turn,  the chest is quickly threatened. Gloss: Initiate a hew straight above from the top of the head with the long edge, and swiftly upon that, an under-hew to the right side of his head. Thereafter according to the two plays in his school rules with other strikes, treads and deception.
	If he then shoves the point firmly upward with his hilt in the displacement of the parter, invert your sword with the hilt high in front of your head (such that the thumb comes below), and set the point under his hands upon his chest (as stands pictured here).
	[56] How the crown breaks the parter 65 Whatever comes from him,  The crown takes it away. Gloss. Note, when you cleave-in above with the parter: if he displaces with the hilt high over his head, this displacement is called the crown, and with it [he] runs-in to you.		Another play. How the crown breaks the scalper. 65 What comes from him,  the crown takes away. Gloss: When you hew-in above with the scalper, if he then displaces high with the sword athwart over the head or gripped with an armored hand, that is called the crown against Seydenfaden's scalper, and with that run-in with shoving, etc. It also takes-off the scalper. This also breaks someone like this again as above with the hilt thrown over that and cast down.
	[57] This is the text and the gloss: how the cut breaks the crown 66 Cut through the crown,  So you break the hard beautifully; 67 Press the strike,  Withdraw it with cutting. Gloss. Note, when he displaces the parter (or otherwise another hew) with the crown and with that runs in: so take the under-cut below his hands into his arm and press firmly upwards (as stands pictured next to this); so the crown is well broken...		Another play. How the cut breaks the crown. 66 Cut through the crown,  so you break the hard beautifully. 67 Press the strike.  It backs-off with cutting. Gloss: When he displaces the scalper (or otherwise a hew) with the armed crown and with that runs-in, then take the cut under his hands, into his arms and press firmly upward...
	...and wind your sword from the under-cut into the over-cut, and with that withdraw yourself.		...and with the stroke back yourself off with it.