Medieval principles of dagger and wrestling

medieval manuscripts bring to us principles of dagger and wrestling. talhoffer's ambraser codex (1459.), fechtbush (1467.) and goliath with recital of liechtenauer's verses are opend again.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• medieval
• manuscripts
• wrerstling
• dagger
• talhoffer
• goliath
• fencing

[bombur792]

Can you tell me what is that music, please?

[aureusunicornis]

@bombur792 i think that is wolgemut but iam not shure

[sewagedweller]

thx for posting

[aureusunicornis]

@sewagedweller  wellcome

[Murdockjackson]

@bombur792 It sounds like a medieval version of "The march of the swordmaster, by Rhapsody"

[baller477]

@bombur792 Tourdion

[tallswede80]

Excellent.

[saintfather]

@bombur792 It is a British national song called "Play minstrel play"

[Willthemusikfreunde]

@bombur792 It's 'Quand je bois du vin clairet'

[peterkvideo]

Thanks for posting this! Now we can see how wrestling is useful in weapons fighting. Also, one can see that some moves in modern freestyle/greco-roman wreslting were taken from european medieval wrestling.