Master Ott's Ringkampflehre

[G.MatthewWebb]

Does anyone know of an English-language translation of Meister Ott's Ringkampflehre? The original text is available here:

http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/fechtbuchott.htm


Matthew Webb
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
USA

[Jeff Hansen]

There is also a transcription from the more extensive Danzig version on the "Die Freifechter" website. I started on the translation a while ago but didn't get very far before becoming dispirited by the difficulty. I don't know german and I couldn't find a quarter of the words in my german-english dictionary. I have great respect for those who have done translations, in many cases from languages they don't speak. It's a frustrating task.

[Jeffrey Hull]

I do not know of any English translations, but there should be.

There are transcripts of three versions (Danzig, Oettingen-Wallerstein, Speyer) of Ott Juden wrestling at ARMA Poland, courtesy of one of my favorite transcribers, Monika Maziarz:

http://arma.lh.pl/zrodla/zrodla.html

JH

[G.MatthewWebb]

Jeffrey,

Thanks for the link!

Matthew Webb
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
USA