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Encyclopedia > Ward (fencing)

A ward or guard (translating German Hut "protection") is a defensive position in the German school of swordsmanship. In MS I.33 the concept is rendered as custodia "guard". Paulus Hector Mair translates Hut as habitus. German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... The wards ochs and pflug as shown in the fechtbuch of Peter von Danzig (1452). ... fol. ... page of Mscr. ...


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