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Johannes Liechtenauer/Christian Tobler D 2021
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This is Master Johannes Liechtenauer’s Fighting on Horseback
1 | Direct your spear. Riding against destroys. |
2 | If it drops, the end undoes him. |
3 | Strike in, don’t pull. From the scabbard, left to him jerk. |
4 | Grasp to his right thus you catch him without weapons work. |
5 | The fighting of lance-thrusting. Learn to counter calmly without haste. |
6 | If it changes so that the sword is used against the sword, |
7 | truly seize the strong. You seek the Pouch Stroke, |
8 | And remember: learn well to strongly defend. In all meetings, press him without danger, |
9 | plant upon without danger. Who grazes, hang to him to the hair. |
10 | If you want to calmly charge long, this troubles greatly |
11 | whoever now defends that. Then wind that hurts also. |
12 | If he defends against this further, grasp the bridle and do not let it go. |
13 | Be mindful of the openings, search for the Messer, do not tend to the pommel. |
14 | Learn two strokes with the empty hand against the weapon. |
15 | The sheep grip fends off him who turns to you with wrestling. |
16 | While under the eyes, grasp him truly with flying. |
17 | Who attacks you while riding towards, you will be felled. |
18 | Hanging to the ground. Grasp over against him truly with conduct. |
19 | To both sides you should learn to ride against him. |
20 | If you want to ride The horse run to the other side. |
21 | Defend strongly, Plant upon him threaten him with this. |
22 | Who defends against that, grasp his sword from afar, get to the handle. |
23 | Or turn around to calmly charge for the weapon |
24 | with all skill. He who charges, acts to his advantage. |
25 | If you have charged past him and unintentionally charge to the left, |
26 | follow his sword upwards and wrestle, push also hard. |
27 | If one charges on the right, stop; turn around; tend to the fight. |
28 | With the arm catch. Thus he cannot manage to harm you. |
29 | The Messer take. Hold, learn to shame him. |
30 | The unnamed, against the strong to turn |
31 | their strike, their thrust, is being defeated without any fencing. |
32 | If you want to grasp, you should not fail to ride beside him. |
33 | The sun pointer. Take the left sleeve if you want to bend. |
34 | Touch the forehead. Against the nape of the neck press very hard, |
35 | so that he sways and rarely makes it up again. |
36 | Who attacks you with that, grasp over against him and he will be shamed. |
37 | Press the arm to the head. This grip often robs the saddle. |
38 | If you want to retain yourself from seizing, |
39 | then take him into custody without wrestling, without any rope. |
40 | The before grip remember, this indeed breaks his strength. |
Here Begins the Art with the Short Sword in Dueling, of Master Johannes Liechtenauer, God Have Mercy on Him.
41 | Who dismounts, begins fighting on foot. |
42 | This do with the spear: two positions begin truly. |
43 | Spear and point, thrust the initial thrust without fear. |
44 | Spring, wind set truly upon. If he defends pull, that will defeat him. |
45 | If you want to thrust before, with pulling learn to break his defense. |
46 | Note: if he wants to pull back from harm and flee, |
47 | then approach him to surely attend to grasp. |
This Is the Wrestling in Dueling
48 | If you want to wrestle, learn to spring correctly behind the leg. |
49 | A bar shoot forth, that skillfully locks the leg. |
50 | From both sides, if you want to skillfully end. |
51 | If it happens that the sword against the spear is drawn, |
52 | then behold the thrusts. Spring, catch, hasten to him to wrestle. |
53 | Strike long with the left hand. Spring surely and seize him. |
54 | If he wants to draw from the scabbard, grasp and press in, |
55 | so that his openings with the sword point are troubled. |
56 | Leather and gauntlets, under the eyes, seek the openings correctly. |
57 | The forbidden wrestling, surely learn to use. |
58 | To lock your foe, the strong thereby overcome. |
59 | In all teachings turn the point against the openings. |
60 | When one sees that from the scabbard both swords are being drawn, |
61 | then shall one strengthen. The protection now truly remember. |
62 | Before and after, these two things, explore surely, learn also to spring away. |
63 | Follow in all meetings if you want to fool the strong. |
64 | If he defends, then pull. Thrust, if he defends, move to him. |
65 | If he fights extended, then be artfully instructed. |
66 | If he also attacks strongly, the thrusting defeats him. |
67 | With his striking point he defends himself—hit without fear. |
68 | With both hands learn to turn your point to the eyes. |
69 | The forward foot with striking you must protect. |