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When it seems he wants to run in on you  
 
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Drive him away with the foremost point
 
Drive him away with the foremost point
Who has already run in on you
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When he has already run in on you
He should be first with gripping and wrestling</poem>
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You should be first with gripping and wrestling</poem>
  
 
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Revision as of 01:18, 21 January 2021

Christoff Rösener
Born 16th century
Died date of death unknown
Occupation Fencing master
Movement Marxbrüder
Genres Fencing manual
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ehren Tittel und Lobspruch
der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst
der fechter
(1589)

Christoff Rösener was a 16th century German Marxbrüder and certified Master of the Long Sword. In 1579, he authored a treatise on fencing entitled Ehren Tittel und Lobspruch der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst der fechter ("Record of Honor and Words of Praise for the Chivalric, Free Art of the Fencer"), which offered a history of the art of fencing and the Marxbrüder guild, as well as advice to students of the art.

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