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| [77] '''<span style="color:#cc0000;">Here mark how one shall do the Squinter-hew:</span>'''
 
| [77] '''<span style="color:#cc0000;">Here mark how one shall do the Squinter-hew:</span>'''
Mark, when you come to him with the pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot before and hold your sword on your right shoulder. If he then hews above in to the head, then turn your sword and hew long over his sword against his hew with the short edge with stretched arms in to his head. Is he then clever and Fails with the hew, and will Change-through below your sword, then let the point shoot in long before you with the hew, so he may not Change-through below.  
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Mark, when you come to him with the pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot before and hold your sword on your right shoulder. If he then hews above in to the head, then turn your sword and hew against his hew with the short edge long over his sword with stretched arms above in to his head. Is he then clever and Fails with the hew, and will Change-through below your sword, then let the point shoot in long before you with the hew, so he may not Change-through below.  
 
| '''<span style="color:#cc0000;">Hie merck wie man den schilär hauen sol</span>'''
 
| '''<span style="color:#cc0000;">Hie merck wie man den schilär hauen sol</span>'''
 
Merck wenn du mit dem zu° vechten zw° ym kumpst So stee mit dem lincken fuess vor vnd halt dein swert an deiner rechtñ achsel hawt er dir denn oben ein zw° dem kopff So ver wennt dein swert vnd haw gegen seinem haw mit der kûrtzen schneid lanck aus gerackten armen ober vber sein swert Im zu° dem kopff Ist er denn also gescheid vnd verfelt mit dem haw deins swertz vnd wil vnden durch wechselñ So lass den ort mit dem haw fürsich lanck ein schiessen So mag er vnden nicht durch wechseln  
 
Merck wenn du mit dem zu° vechten zw° ym kumpst So stee mit dem lincken fuess vor vnd halt dein swert an deiner rechtñ achsel hawt er dir denn oben ein zw° dem kopff So ver wennt dein swert vnd haw gegen seinem haw mit der kûrtzen schneid lanck aus gerackten armen ober vber sein swert Im zu° dem kopff Ist er denn also gescheid vnd verfelt mit dem haw deins swertz vnd wil vnden durch wechselñ So lass den ort mit dem haw fürsich lanck ein schiessen So mag er vnden nicht durch wechseln  

Revision as of 02:05, 16 November 2015

Gloss and Interpretation of
the Recital on 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
Principal
Manuscript(s)
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 Recital (Zettel) 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.

Treatise

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 II (1564) versions, has slightly longer descriptions for many devices and is always accompanied by illustrations. The second branch, appearing first in the Augsburg I (1450s) and used in all extant versions except the three listed above, has shorter descriptions but a number of additional devices.

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 Augsburg I and Salzburg versions, but in most of the other manuscripts it is included inline.

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References

  1. This name stems from the false assumption of many 20th century writers identifying him with Peter von Danzig zum Ingolstadt.
  2. cut, strike, slash, punch, beat
  3. well, very, quite, certainly, easily have, almost, in general
  4. on, to, upon, at, in
  5. reversed, inverted, perverse, incorrect
  6. Indes - Both within and during
  7. cut, struck, slashed, punched, beat
  8. reversed, inverted, perverse, incorrect
  9. reversed, inverted, perverse, incorrect
  10. Squint here means "an askew glance", referring to both the sword's direction of travel and also the use of deception with the eyes with this hew.