Martin Huntsfeld/Stephen Cheney MF 2020

Here begins Master Martin Huntfelt’s art, God be gracious to him, on horseback with the lance and with the sword, written hereafter

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Stride on horseback Learn from both sides Thereafter certainly Know the horse well Also note the side Which you wish to advantageously stride Whoever thinks about you His sword wins coming to you Wind on without misgiving If you want no pain Thereafter note Stitch lance wielding with strength Run to the first opening Then grasp the bridle long with sense Thereafter stride forth Thwart the lance over a side Then note the side So you want to ride with art So correctly with sense Then you want to win set-aside Right long, let hang That I praise, if you want to wrestle Whoever wants to hew upon you Parry, you shall free yourself When you have parried Then all of his hews are destroyed So you find with slice Behind and in front, thereafter hew away to him Reins, left leg, otherwise threaten him

These are the techniques with the lance

Item: Run in equally with him with the lance, and stand up from the left arm.

Item: Set aside short with both hands with the lance

Item: So someone strikes away your lance with the sword, jab him with the lance with the back part to the testicles, or move with the arm to his arm and take his sword.

Sword against sword

Item: Lay your sword on the left arm, and when someone hews onto you, stand up, hew away hand, reins, left leg.

Item: Stand up with the sword, and take his sword.

Item: Go up with your pommel and hew to his head. Counter lance and all weapons with it.

Item: When you strike to his head and he parries you, hang well from your right arm. Throw or stab him to his arm.

Item: Parry the stab or the hit, and move with the pommel to his neck, and throw him.

Item: When he rides to you to the left side, parry and strike an over hew to his head, or stab him in the neck.

Item: Take your sword in the left hand, and lay it on the neck of the horse, and when he strikes, parry and stab him to the neck.

Item: When he strikes, parry and thrust with your hilt under his arm, and with your right foot, move under his saddle rim and raise his foot high, and lift up his arm with your hilt, and therefore throw him from the horse.

Item: This technique is the noble sheep hold, as you well know how one shall perform it.

Item: One sword with the other taken from the hanging point. Grab his arm in which he holds the sword, and thrust through him and take his sword, or pull him from the horse.

Item: As before, hew an over hew straight to his head.

Item: Go up from the left arm, and hew away his neck with the thwart, or grab his neck with the right hand and throw him.

This is with the armed hand

Item: Let hang long, and grip in the short sword, and parry in front of your hand, and stab him wherever you may.

Item: As before, and move around his neck, parry especially long from you.

Item: Go up with the pommel, and parry with the window, and grip in the half sword, and shift the back hand forward, and strike him to the neck.

Item: Sword against lance: parry with the sword so that your stab goes to his neck.

Item: If someone hunts strong onto you with the lance, then parry with half sword, and let slide with it, and stab him to the neck.

Item: Take sword, dagger, from the left side, and the lance left side, note your work with it strong.

Item: Wind and parry, take it long from you, so he is destroyed by hand.

Against the parry at the sword

31	Item: blind thereafter Whoever wants to disgrace you with parry Notice without misgiving And move quickly under his arms there.

To break set-aside with the lance

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If you want to break set-aside And destroy his art Lance to the front Rush under it, take it to him without wrath You may also wrestle When you have clasped him.

Item: If he grips you to the side around the neck or similar, clasp his arm outwards in the inside of the elbow, and break up from below.

This is a common lesson on horseback

Item: If you flee before if one hunts you, and one plants behind you with the lance, then set aside through arms, or throw yourself around, or sit with the ass in the crook, or hold onto yourself with the horse as a result through the horse, and hew in with the spurs, so the lance goes out. Learn from both sides, hew, stab, artfully slide-away.

Item: Stab from both sides behind you to him after hunting, and in the same stab, sit in the crook.

Item: You may also set aside with the hand and with the dagger, when one has planted in front. That goes forth also with points in the crook.

This is again a lesson

Note, when you shall fence on horseback with a crossbow and with a sword, and would like to hold both of them so that you don’t let them leave you, when you work with one so that you also hold the other,

note when you have shot, and can’t reload the crossbow, and must yet press, then strike your crossbow to your left arm, and grip to the sword or grab the crossbow low by the nut with the left hand to the reins, and therefore make a shield with the crossbow, and work with the sword.

However, if you want to reload, then strike your sword under your left leg under the stirrup leather, and press the leg to the horse as such, or stab your sword through the belt of your tabard, and therefore you may reload, and hold them both, and come towards and away with it.

Horse Throw-down

Make yourself nearby him onto the right side. Grab his horse with your right hand over the neck, and grab him by his reins below by the bit, and come with the right hand to the left to help, and wrench strongly to yourself, so he must fall against you onto your left side, and that play also goes forth the same way on the left side.

If someone then takes you under eyes on your right side, grab him with your right hand next to your right leg to the bridle, below by the bit, and wrench strongly upward with both hands, and press his horse to the side with your horse’s chest by the lower leg, so he must fall away from you on the back, or onto a side, and you may also perform that play on the left side.