Lexicon

The single-time counter: winding the sword so that his incoming thrust is displaced by the same motion that puts your point in his face. Parry and riposte are one tempo, not two.

The low guard with the point slack toward the ground; named "fool" because it looks like negligence. In the [LS 3] list it is the guard that "wards" — its whole function is to bait and set off (versetzen) the attack it invites, above all the Scheitelhau.

The proverbial slice onto the arms delivered against the man who chases your travelling-after or reaches over you; "old" as in time-proven. It is the cutting system ([LS 19]) applied as a counter-counter.

Placing the point against an opening and driving it home, especially after a displacement or in armor where hews are useless. The Zettel treats it as the finish of displaced fights ("the four ends" = the four openings) and the core scoring act of the mounted and armored duel.

A target quarter of the man. Unarmored: four (upper/lower, left/right), and the doctrine is to fence at them rather than at the sword. Armored: the openings contract to the unplated places — strap-leather, gauntlet, visor slot — and the doctrine is unchanged.

Against a hard bind above: the instant second strike thrown behind his blade to the upper opening, without leaving the bind. Paired with mutieren as the two "breakings" of the four openings.

When he crowds in high with strength, ducking through under his arms — sword let hang behind, pommel-grip — into body-wrestling. The Zettel's bridge from fencing to Ringen.

Slipping the point beneath his blade to the far side in the moment he moves to bind or parry, arriving with a thrust. The standing threat that punishes blade-hunters; itself punished by close hewing ([LS 1]) and the Schielhau ([LS 9]).

The hew shown at one opening and failed on purpose, landing below at will; doubled, it converts into the slice. The Zettel files it inside the Twer material — the thwart plane is what makes the miss safe.

Reading the enemy through blade-contact pressure in the bind. Its output is deliberately binary — soft or hard — and it is fused to indes: the feeling and the action it triggers are one instant, not perception then decision.

The two point-forward inclinations of the sword — above (Ochs-like) and below (Pflug-like) — through which the point stays threatening while the hilt covers. "From one hand from the ground": both exist on each side, giving the four entries to the eight windings.

The system's third temporal word beside Vor and Nach: acting within his action, at the moment the bind reveals soft or hard. Not general quickness — a specific window opened by contact and read by fühlen.

The pursuit phase of the mounted duel. Doctrine: chase to his right (weapon) side; if the pass forces you to his left, stop fencing and hunt his sword-arm into wrestling; if you are chased, halt, turn, and take the arm-catch.

The winding contest at close quarters once blades and hilts are engaged. It must not be hurried; forced high, it is punished low. The edel krieg ("noble war") is the same fight seen from the winner's side — the man whose winding disorients the forcer.

The high, hilt-leading catch that takes off the Scheitelhau ("what comes from him, the Kron takes off"). Strong against the vertical blow, weak beneath its own arms — hence broken by the slice through and pressed away.

The hew thrown off-line with crossed hands, point cast onto his hands; counter to the Ochs-masters (onto the flat), spoiler of parries (with the step), and — shown but not thrown — the feint that opens the changing-through ("krump not, short-hew").

A standing position of sword and body. The Zettel's radicalism is arithmetic: four alone (Ochs, Pflug, Alber, vom Tag) defined by where the point threatens, and open contempt for "the common" multiplicity of named wards.

Proportion — reach, distance, timing — as the law of the art; the preface's final word and the quiet premise of everything else (Überlaufen is length; Indes is measure in time).

The mounted disarm of the dagger — taken and kept, so his last close-range weapon becomes yours. With grip control it "spoils striking and thrusting without any fighting."

Against a bind that resists above: transmuting the threat by winding the blade over his and dropping the point to the lower opening on the other side. Partner of duplieren; together they make any bind fatal on one quarter or another.

The harvest of the After: striking into his windup, following his miss, occupying his recovery. "Twofold" — it lives above and below; its sensory partner is fühlen, and its counter-counter is the old cut.

The upper hanging as a standing guard: hilt beside the head, point hanging at his face. One of the four leger; the "hard join" target of the Twer's upper cycle and the home of the upper windings.

The point of the sword as the system's first threat: the Zornhau ends in it, Absetzen wins by it, Ansetzen plants it, the armored duel is decided by it ("turn the point to the eyes"). Where German has one syllable, the doctrine has one priority.

The lower hanging as a standing guard: hands low by the hip, point rising at his face. Twin of the Ochs; between the two of them the four openings are covered and the eight windings are entered.

The Zettel's name for the strength-fencer: force without art, strikes and thrusts alike. The Schielhau exists to break him — geometry against muscle.

In the duel's wrestling: the limb shot across his fore-leg like a door-bolt to lock it while the throw completes; paired with the spring behind the leg as the two leg-attack entries.

The master defensive grip of mounted wrestling, warding "all grips under the eyes" — face-to-face grapple attempts. Named, the tradition suggests, from the herdsman's one-handed hold of a sheep's head.

The vertical hew to the crown (scheitel, the hair's parting) — the longest hew, taker of low guards by pure reach, "a danger to the face… to the breast with its turn." Its dedicated counter is the Kron; the Kron's counter is the slice.

The short-edge hew delivered with the gaze feinted aside ("squinting"), breaking at once the buffalo's power blows and the changer-through's evasions; aimed at throat and upper head/hands. The one hew the Zettel aims at types of fencer rather than positions.

The mounted universal displacement: the strong sweeping shake of the blade that "precedes all meetings, hews and thrusts," from which setting-on, the wind to the eye, and the bridle-seizure escalate. Prominent in the figures and in the armored endgame.

The blade's two halves and the leverage relation of crossed swords: his weak on your strong yields; your weak on his strong flees to another line. With soft/hard, the entire physics the Zettel requires.

The bind held deliberately in long point, point at his face — a "window" through which you converse: stand cheerfully, watch his affair, and let his first motion be your tempo. The institutionalized form of Fühlen.

The mounted throw that "shows him the sun": forehead pulled, nape pressed, face cranked skyward until the spine follows and the saddle empties. Its named counter (over-grip, arm to head) and counter-prevention (fore-grip) follow in the same verses.

The mounted hew "sought" where harness and belt-gear sag — the pouch/strap region of arm and hip. A named target-hew: in armor you do not hew at the man, you hew at his gaps.

The horizontal hew with blade athwart and hilt high, which "takes away whatever comes from the day": the roof-line answer to all descending blows, cycling Ochs-and-Pflug on both sides with springing footwork. Home of the Feler and the Verkehrer.

Against attacks below: do not follow them down — out-reach them above, where your blade arrives first and his shortness shames him. Length used as a weapon; the vertical twin of the four-openings doctrine.

The mounted wrestling hold whose very name the tradition withholds — "the unnamed [grip]: the strong are turned over by it." A deliberate secrecy-marker inside a poem that is already, by design, obscure.

The joint-breaking, maiming holds barred from friendly play and the public Fechtschule, expressly taught for the judicial duel: "learn wisely to bring them." The register-switch that tells you the Kampffechten is fought for life and legal standing.

The turning-over of hand and blade in the bind that compels his arm ("the inverter compels"), opening the entry to the elbow, the run-through, and the wrestling at the sword.

Janus-word. The four Versetzen are the four hews that break the four guards — displacement by attack. The same verses damn versetzen as mere parrying ("beware of parrying: if it happens, it sorely troubles you") and supply the repairs: wrench off, or set on at the four ends.

The raised striking guard (shoulder or above) — "the day" being high heaven; the position from which the Oberhau world descends, and precisely what the Twer "takes away."

The two halves of initiative: acting first so he must answer (Vor), and exploiting his commitment when he acted first (Nach). "The single wellspring of all art" — named again, unchanged, in the armored endgame; applied to wrestling as the fore-grip.

The first decisive grip in wrestling: whoever takes it meaningfully has taken the Vor with his hands — "it breaks his strength from then on."

The first thrust of the armored duel's spear phase — the Vor made steel. Delivered "without fear," sustained by twitching when warded.

Rotating the sword against the bind — hilt covering, point re-aimed — so that hew, thrust, and cut remain available while contact is kept. The conclusion counts them: two hangings per side, through both lines, = eight windings, each threefold by the three wounders = twenty-four; and the only input the whole tree needs is soft-or-hard.

The verse epitome itself: "hidden and disguised words" written so the art "shall not be made common," index to an oral curriculum. The manuscripts treat it as scripture-to-be-glossed; the sixteenth-century copies close it like an authored book ("thus ends Master Liechtenauer's art").

The strong diagonal thrown "as a peasant strikes" (so the glossators) that rides over the enemy's Oberhau and turns instantly into the point's threat. The Zettel's model paragraph hangs the whole decision doctrine on it.

Snapping the blade off the bind to re-enter elsewhere; iterable until a quarter opens ("twitch — if he meets it, twitch more"). In the armored duel it is the standing answer to every successful ward.