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手抄本Pol Hausbuch (MS 3227a)（https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Pol_Hausbuch_(MS_3227a) ）中长剑注释的比较新的通俗译版。虽然都是原则性注释，没什么具体动作解释，但比原来看的译版用词好懂一些，可以拿来对照，但可惜专有名词还是都翻成英文了。

https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/File:Chidester_3227a_Translation_23_Dec_2019.pdf

#hema #liechtenauer #manuscripts

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Before both #Liechtenauer and #Fiore, in the late XIII century someone created a book teaching how to fight with #SwordAndBuckler (a small hand-held #shield): manuscript I.33. This is one of the oldest martial arts manuals in the world.

In it a priest teaches several students — and the last pages depict a woman taking up the weapons. Her name is given as #Walpurgis, which is why we sometimes call the book #CodexWalpurgis and regard her unofficially as the matriarch of HEMA.

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#Liechtenauer's disciples and associates extendeded the art to different weapons: Ott Jud taught #wrestling (#Ringen); Lekuchner the one-handed knife-sword #LangesMesser (or just #Messer); others focused on #dagger (#degen)...

#KdF would thrive for over 300 years, outgrowing its usefulness and turning into sport before becoming defintiely extint in the XVIII century. But thanks to the treatises these masters wrote, today we can reconstruct them!

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I study the teachings of the XIV century fight master Johannes #Liechtenauer . These are usually called #KunstDesFechtens (#KdF, the «art of combat»).

He composed a poem, called the #Zettel, which describes «with secret and hidden words» techniques and advice on fighting with the two-handed #sword (#longsword), in (#Harnischfechten) and out of armour (#Bloßfechten), and also on #horse (#Roßfechten) with the #spear.

(Yes, that's me, teaching. I'm a #showoff , I know.)