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When one stabs to you from below with his thesack / then drop your left hand on his right hand / and hold it tight / and grab his messer from below with your right hand inverted / and twist his messer's point out from below and toward his body / and stride with your chest behind on his messer / thus you stab him with his own weapon.
 
When one stabs to you from below with his thesack / then drop your left hand on his right hand / and hold it tight / and grab his messer from below with your right hand inverted / and twist his messer's point out from below and toward his body / and stride with your chest behind on his messer / thus you stab him with his own weapon.
 
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<br/>If he stabs to you from above with his thesack / then invert your right hand / and block his right arm ahead near the hand / and then wrench him over / and with your left hand take his weight with the elbow / and force him onto the ground.
 
<br/>If he stabs to you from above with his thesack / then invert your right hand / and block his right arm ahead near the hand / and then wrench him over / and with your left hand take his weight with the elbow / and force him onto the ground.
 
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If one stabs to you from above with the tessack, then invert your right hand and grab his right and grab his right arm in front near his hand, and twist it, and with your left hand take his balance by his elbow, and throw him to the ground.
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<br/>If one stabs to you from above with the tessack, then invert your right hand and grab his right and grab his right arm in front near his hand, and twist it, and with your left hand take his balance by his elbow, and throw him to the ground.
 
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&#383;ticht dir ainer obñ &#658;u mit dem te&#383;ackñ / &#383;o verker dein rechte handt vñ fach &#383;ein rechtñ arm͂ forñ pei &#383;einer handt / vñ reib ym den vm / vnd mit deiner linckñ handt nim ym da&#383;&#658; gwicht pei dem elpogñ vñ &#383;chwing yn auff die erdt

Revision as of 11:57, 15 July 2017

Andre Paurñfeyndt
Born 15th century
Died 16th century
Occupation
Nationality German
Patron Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
Movement Liechtenauer Tradition
Influences Johannes Liechtenauer
Influenced
Genres
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (1516)
Manuscript(s)
Concordance by Michael Chidester and Jeremiah Smith
Translations Deutsch-Übersetzung

Andre Paurñfeyndt (Paurñfeindt, Paurenfeindt) was a 16th century German Freifechter. He seems to have been a resident of Vienna, although he mentions in his introduction that he served as a bodyguard to Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468 - 1540).[1] In 1516, he wrote and published a fencing manual entitled Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey ("Founding of the Chivalric Art of Swordplay"), which Sydney Anglo notes may have been the first illustrated work of its kind.[2] Little else is known about the life of this master, but he describes himself as a Freifechter and the contents of his book make it clear that he was associated with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. His treatise diverges significantly from the standard teachings of the Liechtenauer tradition, but this may be due to his stated purpose of writing for beginning fencers.

Treatise

Please note that only the first edition of this text (1516) has a complete set of illustrations, and we currently do not have scans of that edition that we are authorized to distribute. This article is illustrated using the remaining three illustrated texts, but following the order laid out in the original. The only exception to this is the image on page H2v of the 1516, which is replaced by the three images used in Egenolff's version. Furthermore, while the Twelve Rules for the Beginning Fencer are unillustrated in Paurñfeyndt's work, this presentation includes the illustrations for six of the twelve found in the MS B.200 (1524).

Additional Resources

References

  1. Ott, Michael. "Matthew Lang." The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
  2. Anglo, Sydney. The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. p 46. ISBN 978-0-300-08352-1