Its written in a way that tells me that its more of a distraction method so you can close in with your sword or spear and finish him off.
Pommels in general are good blunt trauma but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to remove said pommel and throw it away. Chucking ones pommel at an opponent doesn't seem like the brightest of ideas. One can see a few obvious problems with this. The manuscript is basically telling us that throwing your pommel at your opponent is a functional fighting technique.
Hold your spear in your right hand and prepare to thrust, to stop him from closing in if it is his intention."Īs you can see on the page, the knight on the left has unscrewed his pommel and is preparing to throw it at his opponent who is readying himself to defend himself against the throw. When he throws his pommel at you, keep your buckler close to you and watch out for the throw. Close in with the throw and use your sword or spear, whatever suits you best. (translated from German) ".If you want to end him rightly, hold your spear and sword together on your arm, unscrew the pommel of your sword and throw it at him vigorously.
On folio 7r on the manuscript theres a rather interesting technique described on this page as follows: The Gladitoria was a fighting manuscript based around armored one-on-one combat with a few different type of weapons, including longsword, spear, buckler, and dagger.
So if anyone has looked up sword techniques on youtube chances are you've seen references to "pommel throwing" and "ending your opponent rightly" in the comments, this was introduced by youtuber Skallagrim making a video about the 15th century German manuscript Gladatoria MS KK5013.Īll jokes aside i'm pretty interested in the practical use of this method.
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