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<p>'''Gloss:''' When one will strike you to the head from his right side with an over-cut, so you cut as well against it with a wrath-cut from your right side (especially if he defends softly on the sword) and in the cut, throw-in the wrath-point into his face and thrust. If he then sees it and notices and parries, then take-away above and strike around it from your left shoulder to his right with the short edge if it goes nearer<ref>alt: closer, sooner</ref> than the other. And break the biters to the head, to the body if you can. You may also properly take-away with the long edge, there after striking or severing<ref>this is usually the term for the severing of limbs/extremities, though can mean cutting while exiting</ref> from him, etc.</p>
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<p>'''Gloss:''' When one will strike you to the head from his right side with an over-cut, so you cut as well against it with a wrath-cut from your right side (especially if he defends softly on the sword) and in the cut, throw-in the wrath-point into his face and thrust.<includeonly></p></includeonly><section end="wrath-1"/> <section begin="wrath-2"/><includeonly><p></includeonly>If he then sees it and notices and parries, then take-away above and strike around it from your left shoulder to his right with the short edge if it goes nearer<ref>alt: closer, sooner</ref> than the other. And break the biters to the head, to the body if you can. You may also properly take-away with the long edge, there after striking or severing<ref>this is usually the term for the severing of limbs/extremities, though can mean cutting while exiting</ref> from him, etc.</p><section end="wrath-2"/>
 
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| <p>Item. The wrath-cut is nothing other than a strong wrathful over-cut like a simple peasant strike and is obscurely named in the record for the over-cut. The same as with the other four cuts that will follow hereafter with their particular names. So that they, with their content and plays, are not common to everyone.</p>
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| <section begin="wrath-3"/><p>Item. The wrath-cut is nothing other than a strong wrathful over-cut like a simple peasant strike and is obscurely named in the record for the over-cut. The same as with the other four cuts that will follow hereafter with their particular names. So that they, with their content and plays, are not common to everyone.</p><section end="wrath-3"/>
 
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| <p>'''The taking-away''' is nothing other than when you have bound-upon with someone from over-cuts and go-up upon his sword and draw your sword above, around his sword or point, to the other side or shoulder into another cut to his other side or opening.</p>
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| <section begin="wrath-4"/><p>'''The taking-away''' is nothing other than when you have bound-upon with someone from over-cuts and go-up upon his sword and draw your sword above, around his sword or point, to the other side or shoulder into another cut to his other side or opening.</p><section end="wrath-4"/>
 
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<p>If one takes-away and strikes to your other side, then bind or lay-into him, that is, wind-in strongly with the short edge into the ears and goes to both sides, also called doubling and mutating.</p>
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<p>If one takes-away and strikes to your other side, then bind or lay-into him, that is, wind-in strongly with the short edge into the ears and goes to both sides, also called doubling and mutating.</p><section end="wrath-5/>
 
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<p>As Master Hans Medel lays-out and betters: If you wish to take-away, when you have threatened him with your point then take away with the short edge and do not strike to his right with an over-cut. If he then flies-on again, wind crooked against him sideways to the earth. If he will then go up again and strike at you to your left, strike in-the-moment against it, again with the short edge, to his right under his sword or wait upon him again into the after and wind-in to his right crooked into his head. Remember the biters with the short edge upon his head.</p>
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<p>As Master Hans Medel lays-out and betters: If you wish to take-away, when you have threatened him with your point then take away with the short edge and do not strike to his right with an over-cut. If he then flies-on again, wind crooked against him sideways to the earth. If he will then go up again and strike at you to your left, strike in-the-moment against it, again with the short edge, to his right under his sword or wait upon him again into the after and wind-in to his right crooked into his head. Remember the biters with the short edge upon his head.</p><section end="wrath-6"/>
 
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<p>'''Gloss:''' If you have both bound-upon with an over-cut and wrath-cut and have not yet thrown with the point. If he is then strong upon the sword, then be strong out-against and wind-up on the sword into the thrust or stab. If he then sees it and will ward and fend-off and drive up into the air with the parrying; then, where it has connected, set the point underneath between his arms upon the breast</p>
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<p>'''Gloss:''' If you have both bound-upon with an over-cut and wrath-cut and have not yet thrown with the point. If he is then strong upon the sword, then be strong out-against and wind-up on the sword into the thrust or stab. If he then sees it and will ward and fend-off and drive up into the air with the parrying; then, where it has connected, set the point underneath between his arms upon the breast</p><section end="wrath-7"/>
 
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| <p>Or rather, when you fence with another, if he binds softly upon the sword, then drive further with the sword strongly and lay-upon him upon the neck and back him to the side. But if he binds-on hard and strong, then be strong against and wind the short edge upon his sword and thrust and snap quickly back around it and strike to his right side with the short edge—if you go closer. Or rather, if you have wound the short edge upon his sword, then strike-against<ref>widerschlagen: to strike against, in a reverberating sense</ref> him to the same side, down to the head.</p>
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| <section begin="wrath-9"/><p>Or rather, when you fence with another, if he binds softly upon the sword, then drive further with the sword strongly and lay-upon him upon the neck and back him to the side. But if he binds-on hard and strong, then be strong against and wind the short edge upon his sword and thrust and snap quickly back around it and strike to his right side with the short edge—if you go closer. Or rather, if you have wound the short edge upon his sword, then strike-against<ref>widerschlagen: to strike against, in a reverberating sense</ref> him to the same side, down to the head.</p><section end="wrath-9"/>
 
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<p>As Master Hans Medel says: If you will bind-upon another with the wrath-cut and point, then be strong against him in the binding-upon with the thwart-cut. If he then sees that, then take-away again with the crooked or short edge to his right as above with its work, etc. You may also properly remain after your short strike and go-after him.</p>
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<p>As Master Hans Medel says: If you will bind-upon another with the wrath-cut and point, then be strong against him in the binding-upon with the thwart-cut. If he then sees that, then take-away again with the crooked or short edge to his right as above with its work, etc. You may also properly remain after your short strike and go-after him.</p><section end="wrath-10"/>
 
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Revision as of 03:05, 18 November 2016

Hans Medel von Salzburg

A play from Medel's fencing manual
Born 15th century
Died 16th century
Occupation Fencing master
Citizenship Salzburg, Germany
Movement Liechtenauer tradition
Influences
Genres Fencing manual
Language Early New High German
Manuscript(s) Codex I.6.2º.5 (1539)
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations Magyar fordítás

Hans Medel von Salzburg (Hans Niedel, Hans Mendel) was an early 16th century German fencing master. Salzburg is a city in northern Austria, and he seems to have operated as a burgher and Schirmmeister there from at least 1503.[1] Little else is known about this master, but he seems to have been associated with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. He may have traced his lineage through Hans Seydenfaden von Erfurt, a member of the Fellowship of Liechtenauer,[2] as Medel's text is the only known source that mentions the earlier master's teachings.

Medel's name is attached to a manuscript treatise on swordsmanship from 1539, including an incomplete gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital and an addendum on fencing based on "the Seven Stances". This gloss is unique in the Liechtenauer tradition in that it not only offers direct commentary on the Recital, but also demonstrates an awareness of the earlier glosses of Sigmund Schining ain Ringeck (from which a great deal of text is lifted) and Pseudo-Peter von Danzig, and even includes occasional criticisms of and corrections to their teachings. In a few places the gloss specifically describes a teaching of Hans Seydenfaden or Hans Medel, but in several more it merely attributes the teaching to "Master Hans" without indicating which one. This manuscript eventually passed into the library of Paulus Hector Mair, who bound it into the current Codex I.6.2º.5 some time after 1566; unfortunately, the extant fragment of the gloss terminates abruptly at the beginning of the section on Zucken, and the remainder of Medel's gloss is currently lost.

Treatise

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References

  1. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, vol. 40. Salzburg, 1900. p 177.
  2. The Fellowship of Liechtenauer is recorded in three versions of Paulus Kal's treatise: MS 1825 (1460s), Cgm 1570 (ca. 1470), and MS KK5126 (1480s).
  3. alt: right
  4. alt: side
  5. alt: defense
  6. the artist/professional doing their work
  7. alt: gladly valuing in the arts
  8. alt: gladly valuing with kindness
  9. alt: right
  10. alt: weapon
  11. eindrohen: to imminently threaten
  12. Zeck: a biting insect, ie: a tick.
  13. alt: closer, sooner
  14. this is usually the term for the severing of limbs/extremities, though can mean cutting while exiting
  15. widerschlagen: to strike against, in a reverberating sense
  16. towards
  17. severely, precisely, ruthlessly, violently
  18. videlicet: namely; to wit
  19. abhauen: to sever
  20. letz: reversed, disrupted, perverted, refuting, incorrect, twisted, unjust, left
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 21.9 The text here is hidden by a crease in the page.
  22. ansiegen: to return with victory
  23. glance, discern, glean
  24. Ochs
  25. likes to
  26. Ochs
  27. Ochs
  28. Can also mean "to tame or incapacitate".
  29. This is a markedly different reading of the verse from the usual: "Squint to the top of the forehead if you wish to incapacitate the hands". Hand can either mean "hand" or "side" and Medel adds "sy" which refers to the head.
  30. could also mean 'carelessly'
  31. Alternately: strongly, firmly, steadfastly.
  32. the leger or hut
  33. rappen: to gather, to snatch, to seize
  34. no apparent verb here. A similar construction appears below with the added phrase: "set-upon upon the four endings to both sides"
  35. alt: flying
  36. alt: wrongs, falsehoods, meanings, diminishments, mines, minings, manners, ownings, possessings.
  37. alt: exit
  38. mitmachen: join, unite, combine, participate
  39. alternately: old
  40. marginalia: 'malz' => bad, weak
  41. Or possibly "maler"
  42. Here some pages apparently have been lost, unfortunately.
  43. alt: across
  44. alt: it
  45. alt: inside
  46. alt: misleading
  47. alt: across
  48. alt: open