Einhorn Device 2

or when you have crossed the half edge inward toward his head with crossed hands, so that you have given an opening on your left side, if he rushes (as described before) to fence the same way, then keep your hands crossed, pull your head full to the right, and shoot to him with your blade fully over his, the closer to his hilt the better, thus wrench his blade out to your left, as is shown by the small figures on the right hand side of illustration D, and, when this wrench out comes near your left side, drive out with your hands and slash over them with the hald edge deep to his left ear, after which you come nimbly with your long edge onto his sword after pulling out at your pleasure.

What the Device Teaches Us

• Striking in the onset (Zufechten) to control the flow of the fight
• Using Einhorn to create a false opening to deceive (Verfuhren) the opponent into an attack
• Parrying using a crooked barring (Sperren) and following with further crooked quick cuts to the openings
• Cutting over while withdrawing (Abzug)

Interpretation [DP Working Notes]

Meister	Lerhling
Waiting in Vom tag, left leg forward	Waiting in Nebenhut, left leg forward
	Gathering Step forward, slash up through to longpoint from below with the false edge, and come back around to Nebenhut
Gathering Step backward	Gathering Step forward, slash up through to longpoint from below with the false edge, and come back around to Nebenhut
Gathering Step backward	Gathering Step forward, slash up through to longpoint
	In the slashing turn straight up to Einhorn on the right.
	Cut over and around into Unterhauw from the right
	Cut over and around into Unterhauw from the left, coming back into Einhorn
	With the blade well offline lift the left foot and fake a step with it (doing a Gavin stamp), creating an obvious high left opening.

The section above forms the standard "entry" to the Einhorn devices, which is repeated in all of them, the device then continues...

Meister	Lerhling
Zornhauw to upper left opening with a Passing Step	Passing Step back with the left, parry with a Krumphauw like motion so your blade lays over his, barring it down (as per illustration D)
	Snap over to a short edge cut in a Zwerch or Sturtzhauw
	Withdraw with a long edge cut (Oberhauw) over the top of his sword

Interpretation [JM Working notes]

From the standard entry

Meister	Lerhling
Zornhauw to upper left opening with a Passing Step	Dip the point down, cutting around with a Mittelhauw (Forgeng), with a Passing Step with right, catching the sword on your strong with the long edge.
	On contact spring further to the right, pushing your pommel under your right elbow, striking toward his right ear with your short edge or flat.
Rush in to attack to his upper left opening	Lean out to the right, shooting your point over his sword, catching it with the cross as near to his hilt as possible, wrenching out to the left
	Snap a Zwerch to his left ear with the short edge
	Cut down with the long edge at his blade withdrawing with your left foot