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| <section begin="wrath-1"/><p>'''The text on the wrath-hew with its plays and works.'''<br/><br/></p>
 
| <section begin="wrath-1"/><p>'''The text on the wrath-hew with its plays and works.'''<br/><br/></p>
 
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| <p>'''About the four openings'''</p>
 
| <p>'''About the four openings'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''The crooked-hew with its plays.'''</p>
 
| <p>'''The crooked-hew with its plays.'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''Again a play'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Again a play'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''The thwart-hew with its plays.'''</p>
 
| <p>'''The thwart-hew with its plays.'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''This is the squint-hew with it's plays'''</p>
 
| <p>'''This is the squint-hew with it's plays'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''The squinter with scalper with it's plays'''</p>
 
| <p>'''The squinter with scalper with it's plays'''</p>
 
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| <p>Others differ thusly: When you hew-in above with the scalper, if he then displaces high with the sword gripped with an armed hand or athwart over the head. That is called the crown against Seydenfaden's scalper and with that run-in with shoving, etc. It also takes-off the scalper. This also breaks someone like this again as above with the hilt thrown over that and cast down.</p>
 
| <p>Others differ thusly: When you hew-in above with the scalper, if he then displaces high with the sword gripped with an armed hand or athwart over the head. That is called the crown against Seydenfaden's scalper and with that run-in with shoving, etc. It also takes-off the scalper. This also breaks someone like this again as above with the hilt thrown over that and cast down.</p>
 
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| <p>'''About the four positions'''</p>
 
| <p>'''About the four positions'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''A good lesson about the racing-after'''</p>
 
| <p>'''A good lesson about the racing-after'''</p>
  
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| <p>'''Work from the scalper, plunge or fool according to Master Hans with the after.'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Work from the scalper, plunge or fool according to Master Hans with the after.'''</p>
  
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| <p>'''Work from the second stance, the wrath-point with the after split up'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''The fourth:''' If you stand as before and again go up with the wrath-point as before, If he then comes in against you on your sword with the outer cattle-drive, then wind-in crooked and tread-in after and war if it is necessary to do or work as is taught below in the outer cattle-drive in the recital.</p>
 
| <p>'''The fourth:''' If you stand as before and again go up with the wrath-point as before, If he then comes in against you on your sword with the outer cattle-drive, then wind-in crooked and tread-in after and war if it is necessary to do or work as is taught below in the outer cattle-drive in the recital.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Work from the fourth stance, the crooked setting-upon[sic] with the after.'''</p>
 
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| <p>'''The fifth:''' When you stand as before and he also counters you in the crooked setting-on on his right side and he goes-up and means to strike you crooked to your right side, then you may strike, offset, etc. and await the war. You may even also change-through well in that, etc. War if it is necessary.</p>
 
| <p>'''The fifth:''' When you stand as before and he also counters you in the crooked setting-on on his right side and he goes-up and means to strike you crooked to your right side, then you may strike, offset, etc. and await the war. You may even also change-through well in that, etc. War if it is necessary.</p>
 
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| <p>'''The fifth:''' When you stand right as before and he [is] also in the crooked setting-on upon his right as you [are], then go against him on his sword so that you come into the outer cattle-drive and wind-in against him in the crook and war. You may well also wait upon his work. So if he will go up, then counter him with your point, so that he runs onto the point.</p>
 
| <p>'''The fifth:''' When you stand right as before and he [is] also in the crooked setting-on upon his right as you [are], then go against him on his sword so that you come into the outer cattle-drive and wind-in against him in the crook and war. You may well also wait upon his work. So if he will go up, then counter him with your point, so that he runs onto the point.</p>
 
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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 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

Additional Resources

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 hewing while exiting
  15. widerschlagen: to strike against, in a reverberating sense
  16. rechnen: compute, take into account, align
  17. towards
  18. In the standard verse it is 'ab', not 'fast'
  19. severely, precisely, ruthlessly, violently
  20. videlicet: namely; to wit
  21. abhauen: to sever or to hew in exit
  22. alt: high
  23. aufsitzen: to sit on top of something. A rider was sometimes called an 'Aufsitzer'
  24. ausheben: lift out
  25. conjecture, possibly: 'neben'
  26. 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 The text here is hidden by a crease in the page.
  27. alt: breaks-apart, shatters, asunders; burgles; interrupts
  28. ansiegen: to return with victory
  29. glance, discern, glean
  30. Ochs
  31. Ochs
  32. Ochs
  33. could also mean 'carelessly'
  34. Alternately: strongly, firmly, steadfastly.
  35. across
  36. across
  37. your leger
  38. rappen: to gather, to snatch, to seize
  39. no apparent verb here. A similar construction appears below with the added phrase: "set-upon upon the four endings to both sides"
  40. alt: flying
  41. mitmachen: join, unite, combine, participate
  42. alternately: old
  43. marginalia: 'malz' => bad, weak
  44. Or possibly "maler"
  45. Here some pages apparently have been lost, unfortunately.
  46. alt: across
  47. alt: inside
  48. alt: across
  49. uncross your hands