Zornhut Device 4
If it happens that he would not strike, then place yourself into the right Wrath stance and drive over your forward thigh thus: Stay standing with your left foot planted and strike seriously from your right over your left leg into the left Changer, from there travel over yourself again with the short edge through the strike line which you just travelled through from above so that your sword comes to your right shoulder again. Do this then once or thrice and, at the last when you see your opportunity, then drive the short edge in a move from your left above in the air over yourself and let it snap over thus into an upstrike to his lower right opening with your third step, and as this is then pulled right, then slash a deep one again with the short edge over your hand to his left ear, in this let your pommel snap full upward, thus letting it go deeper, then twitch over again and drive a strike to his lower right opening with two forward steps, and then as such is pulled right, then slash again over your hand with the short edge to his left ear, in this let your pommel snap upward thus making it go deeper, twitch over again and drive a strike to his right, yet still soon traverse again to his left with a back step and then pull out.
If it happens that he would not strike, then place yourself into the right Wrath stance and drive over your forward thigh thus: Stay standing with your left foot planted and strike seriously from your right over your left leg into the left Changer,
from there travel over yourself again with the short edge through the strike line which you just travelled through from above so that your sword comes to your right shoulder again.
Do this then once or thrice and, at the last when you see your opportunity, then drive the short edge in a move from your left above in the air over yourself and let it snap over thus into an upstrike to his lower right opening with your third step,
and as this is then pulled right, then slash a deep one again with the short edge over your hand to his left ear, in this let your pommel snap full upward, thus letting it go deeper, then twitch over again and drive a strike to his lower right opening with two forward steps, and then as such is pulled right, then slash again over your hand with the short edge to his left ear, in this let your pommel snap upward thus making it go deeper, twitch over again and drive a strike to his right, yet still soon traverse again to his left with a back step and then pull out.
What the Device Teaches Us
- Creating and breaking a rhythm
- Using flying off and feints
Interpretation [DP Working notes]
| Meister | Lerhling |
|---|---|
| Waiting in Zornhut, left leg forward | Waiting in Zornhut, left leg forward |
| Optional Gathering Step or Stolen Step, cut diagonally across your body so the sword ends up down toward the left, over the left leg | |
| Slash back up to Zornhut with the false edge | |
| Repeat | |
| On the third time as you slash upward, double step (so the left leg ends in front) and cut around an Unterhauw to the lower right opening | |
| Slash around (Umbschlagen) a Sturtzhauw to the upper left opening (without stepping) going high with the pommel | |
| Slash around again to feint a cut to the upper right opening (no foot movement again) | |
| Move to parry with the long edge | As they fall for the feint, fly off (Verfliegen) and step across backward with the left leg, cutting a Zwerch to their left ear. |
