Not that off topic. They used very different means of preserving memory and learning than much of what our society uses. So verse and such would have been in common use, theirs being mainly an illiterate society. Verse mnemonics worked very well for them, as much of other parts of their culture used the same systems.
Probably why the some fight books used verse, combined with pictures and narrative text. Covered all the means that their clients would use to communicate.
Liechentauer's verse is an example, more obtuse than modern writing but the metier could almost be like a song or chant.
krump vff behende ...........................krump with nimbleness
wirff den off die hende........................put the point to the hands
Problem is many of these 'isms' were probably never written down, being local variants or too coarse for genteel publication. So are likely lost...or they may survive in fragments of old folk songs and such....
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