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Sigmund ain Ringeck/Ramsés Castro SS 2024
Here listen itself in the earnest fight from mounting and from foot
All hear itself master Johannes Lichtenauer's fence in armor to Battle, that he has let be written with hidden words, they hereafter in this little book explained and unhide, so that each fencer who can understands art might, that another fencer can not.
This is the preface of the text
1 | Who dismounts Fence on foot begins
Explanation: Note, that you should understand this this way, when two on foot in armor one to the other will fence, then each man should have three wear, a spear, a sword and a dagger, and the first that you should bring is the long spear, with it you should rightly carry it in both arrangements, in two stances, as that here after will be explained. This is the text of the two stances 3. Spear and pointThe forth-thrust stab in fear 4. Spring against right by If he notice, yank to his the face put in Explanation: This is the first stance with the spear, when you both form the saddle are dismounted, So then stand with the left foot forward and hold your spear by the wrap, and step this way to him all the way, that your left foot remains forward, and wait that you before him can shoot towards him and follow quickly the shoot against him with the sword, so that he can not have know which to shoot out and grab[1] the sword. The second stance with spear Note: If you your spear will not throw, then hold it near your right side to the lower guard, and go this way to him, and stab artfully from below to the face, before than he does to you, if he then stabs to you equally or miss-places, then push him out with the spear in the high guard, so you remain with his point out to the left arm and with it then hang with the point over his arm in his face, if he push then out and miss-places with the left arm, then yank and place the point under his left armpit in the opening. The text on how one should yank 5. If you wish yank from the stabWith the yank learn before to break Explanation: Note, that is, that you should well learn that you this way must yank “to someone that do not in-places that you yank-through”,[2] and take it this way, when you stab to him from the lower guard, if he out-places with the spear, that his point aside near to you goes out, so then yank through and stab to the other side, or if he holds you with the other out-placing with the point in front of your face, then do not yank and remain with the spear on the side, and work with the winding to the next opening that you might like. This is the text 6. Note, if he will noticeFrom harm and to flee 7. You should follow him Yes, surely becomes that taken Explanation: Note, this is how you should race after with the spear, note, when you come forward with a stab, if he out-places and wish himself with the spear to pull it off, then follow him after with the point, strike him with it, then push him out from you, if he will from the point underneath flee and went to you to a side, so then wait that the same side charged and wisely take him with wrestling and with arm breaking as you will found written here. The text about wrestling to battle 8. If you will wrestleBeneath leg right learn spring 9. Bar forward shoot That before the leg artfully shoot at Explanation: This is, when you go to him to wrestle, then you should know how you front or behind to the leg spring and it should happen with not more than one step. Item note then act this way When you hold him in the wrestling, and he against you, then see which foot he set forward, if he have the left forward then kick in his left foot[3] off with your right and with the kick then spring with your right foot behind his left and push him with the right knee behind, behind his his left knee and push him with both hands over that same knee. Item, note one other When you jump with the right foot behind his left, then step[4] with your left behind both legs and take his left knee between the both knees and hold it with it firmly and push him with the left hand forward, “in the head”,[5] with the hew and with the right pull him behind, off to the side. This is the text 10. From both handsIf you with art skillfully want to end Explanation: This is, that you all wrestling should know to try from both sides, that is if you wish to end him with art, as you come to him, and that take it this way, when you with the right foot spring behind his left, if he steps then in the spring with his left foot to push, then follow him quickly to the other side with your left foot behind his right and throw him over the knee or kick him on that knee with your leg as before written is. This is the text how one itself should arrange with the spear against the sword 11. If he himself forward pushThe sword against spear becomes pulled 12. The thrust becomes taken Spring catch, wrestle hasten to him Explanation: Note, this is when you your lance have miss shoot and he kept his, then arrange yourself this way against him with the sword, grip middle with the left hand, on the middle of the blade, and let the sword close to you middle of that knee, your left knee in the guard or hold it near your right side in the lower guard. Item: Or if he stabs to you underneath, then set the stab out towards to your left hand and spring with the right behind his left and take him with the pommel from over his right shoulder around the neck and throw him over the knee. Item: Note, if he stabs you then with the lance above, then go off and set his stab out towards your left hand with the sword off your left side and spring to him and wait the in-placement, if you do not want to come that, then let your sword fall and wait the wrestling. Item: If he stabs to you with the lance when you stand in the lower guard, then set his stab out with the sword towards your left hand, off to his right side, and wait the in-placement or the wrestling. The text about out-pacing with bear hands 13. Strike long from the left handSpring wisely and then catch 14. If he will draw From scabbard grasp and press in 15. That in the opening With the swords point troubled Explanation: When you stand in the lower guard, if he stabs you from above with the spear and have catch that, that the point is away from the hand and goes out “and stabs with it above you”,[6] then hit him with your “left hand”[7] in middle of his spear out away, and hold your sword quickly against with the left hand middle in the blade and spring to him and set it in, etc. Item: If he stabs you with the spear underneath to the stomach, then take his spear in the left hand and hold it with it firmly and stab him with the right beneath towards the stomach and push him than his spear firmly forward yourself and will your the off the hand races, then let the spear over him off the hand go, then if he gives himself an opening then hold your sword quickly with the left hand against middle of the blade and follow him quickly after and set him in. The text about the openings 16. Leather and gauntletsAnd in the eyes the opening rightly seek Explanation: This is, when you with an armed man will in-place, then you should the opening precisely take. The first is in the face, other below the armpit, other in the palms, other behind the gauntlets, other in the knee pits, other between the legs, other in all articulations of the armor his joint inside have, When he is steady, the best for winning and the openings you should rightly know to seek on the man, that you should not go after one far target when can take you a near one, that with all weapons that to the battle belong, etc. The text about the hidden wrestling 17. The hidden wrestlingCarefully learn to wrestle 18. To your enemy find The strong with it overtake Explanation: This is when one to the other charges, then let your sword fall and wait with it carefully the wrestling that to the battle belongs hear that is forbidden from all known mastery of the sword, that to one to them are often teach to no one, nor learned nor should seek to reveal, because they to the battle fencing belong, and they are the arm breaking, leg breaking, testicles hits, the death hit, knee hit, finger dislocation, eye griping and more like that. Here you should note the wrestling Item: If "you grip someone"[8] above with wrestling and you wish with strength to pull or push him, then hit the right arm out over his left forward by his hand and press then with both hands on his chest and spring with the right foot behind his left and throw him over that knee of the foot. Item: If he grips you on with wrestling and he holds to you then not firmly, then hold his right hand with your right and pull him from you with the left hold him by the elbow and step with the left foot to his right, And pull in this way over it or throw him by the chest off with the arm and break him then this way. Item: Hold with the left hand his left forward by the hand and pull him to you, and hit your right arm with strength over his left in this bend the arm breaking and break with the left hand his left over his right and spring with the right foot behind his right and throw him from there, etc. Item: If he goes with the left arm beneath your right through, around your body, then hit him with the right arm strong from above below outside his join of his left elbow, and turn with it from him. Item: When he grabs you firmly by the arm and you against him, if he stands then straightened with the foot then shove him off with the foot[9] on the same knee then break his foot. Item: You can also with the knee or with the foot hit him to the testicles, when he is aware, however, you should that foresee that he to you by the foot do not hold you, etc. Item: When he after you grips with open hands or with outstretched fingers, then wait if that in one finger like to grip and breaking it form above and take him with it out of the arena.Also you win over him with the side and gain even more other great advantage. The text about a lesson 19. Item, in all lessonsThe point against the opening turn Explanation: That is that you with all three weapons that wear to the battle, to go all the way with the point to the openings should stab with the forth mentioned, and if otherwise can not, you another bring to damage, etc. The text how one should fence with the sword against sword in battle 20. Where one from the scabbardSword are taken by both 21. So should one strengthen The protection right precisely note Explanation: That is if they both the spear have not choose and should fence with the sword, then you should before all wrestling note and know the the four guards with the short sword, and therefore stab him all the way to the high opening, if he then stabs you with the same one or bind you in the sword, then you should in the hand note if he is hard or weak on sword, And when you have found out, then use the strength against him that you here after written will see. The first guard in the half sword Item: Hold your sword with the right hand by the handle and with the left hold middle in the blade and hold it near your right side over your head and let the point lower hang, to the man, against the face, etc. Item: If he stands then against you in the lower guard and wish to stab you underneath then stab through from above to below between the sword and his forth-placed hand and press the pommel downward and wind in the point on sword beneath through against his right side and set it in.
Test knowingly learn with out spring Explanation: This is that you before all else should know the "forward" and the "behind", because from those two things comes all art to battle, however, then remember that you always come forward before that he is with a slice or with a stab, then he must miss-place you and as quickly as he with the miss-places in the sword bind, then do your technique gracefully, so he can’t before your work his techniques not make and that is called the "forward".
If the strong will you then confuse 24. If he defends then yank Stab, if he defends pull from him 25. If he extends himself Then are you artfully instructed Explanation: Note[25] that is, the persecution you should do against the strong fencers those who stretches and wish otherwise do not have the right art.
The shoot takes him in Explanation: Note,[30] this is when one[31] have in-placed and push you, then stab him in the palm of the hand that he is holding the sword in the middle, or if he have the hand turned, skillfully then stab from above below but in the same hand.[32]
He defends himself hit without fear 28. With both hands The point towards the eyes learn to turn Explanation: Note, the pommel is the “slaughtering” point, if he will to you with it overrun with strong strikes then hold your sword over your left knee and in the guard, if he strikes you then to the head and is a stronger man, then strike to the slice out with the sword towards your left hand against his right side, and go off with the sword in the higher guard.
With strikes you must keep Explanation: Note,[34] this is When you with the pommel wish to hit, so you should do it with quite precisely aim his forth-placed extremity, And that take it this way: When you will hit, then hold your sword in the guard over your head and act as if you wanted to him in the face to in-place, and let your sword go to the right hand, and come with the left holding the middle of the blade and hit in with the pommel to the forth placed-foot or to his forth-placed hand, if he holds the sword in the middle, this way you can also hit to the lower guard from the right side.
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- ↑ Word omitted in Vienna.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ “Hand” in Dresden.
- ↑ “schreit” ("screech") in all three versions, it seems to refer to a step.
- ↑ Phrase only in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase only in Dresden.
- ↑ “Sword" in Vienna and Rostock, it has been opted for “Hand” since the title refers to a technique with a bear hand.
- ↑ "he grips you" in Vienna and Rostock.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ “then yank, then yank” in Rostock.
- ↑ "gemächten", translated as "face" to confirm if right.
- ↑ "reÿß", translated as "tear" to confirm if right.
- ↑ “stabbing-through” in Rostock.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ "well to" in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Missing in Rostock from this point on.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ "when" in Dresden.
- ↑ "upwards" in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Only in Dresden.
- ↑ "breaking" in Dresden.
- ↑ Phrase omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.
- ↑ “you” in Dresden.
- ↑ "guard" in Dresden.
- ↑ Only in Dresden.
- ↑ Word omitted in Dresden.