Erec | riten | sî | beide | | had ridden | they | both |
3295 | ê | daz | ir | aber | leide | | before | that | to her | again | sorrow |
| von | sorgen | geschach | | because of | worry | happened |
| wan | si | vor | ir | ligen | sach | | for | she | before | her | lying (in wait) | saw |
3298 | vünf | roubære | | five | robbers |
| man | saget | daz | ez | wære | | one | says | that | (there) | was |
| ein | geselleschaft | under | in | | an | arrangement | among | them |
3301 | und | daz | si | teilten | ir | gewin | | and | that | they | divided | their | plunder |
| mit | den | die | Êrec | hete | erslagen | | with | those | whom | Erec | had | slain |
| der | eine | begunde- | -z | den | andern | sagen | | the | one | (would) | (it) | (to) the | others | tell |
3304 | dise | vünve | und | jene | drî | man | | these | five | and | (the) other | three | men |
| von | den | ich | iu | vor | gesaget | han | | about | whom | I | you | _ | told before | have |
| die | heten | den | walt | in | ir | phlege | | they | had | the | forest | in | their | control |
3307 | unde | lâgen | bî | dem | wege | | and | lay (in wait) | along | the | way |
| swer | die | einen | vermite | | whoever | the | (first) one | eluded |
| daz | er | den | andern | gerite | | that | he | the | other | rode into |
3310 | Êrec | was | vür | die | drîe | komen | | Erec | had | _ | the | three | gotten past |
| mit | êren | als | ir | habet | vernomen | | with | honor | as | you | have | heard |
| als | er | dô | disen | sô | nâhen | kam | | when | he | then | these | so | close | came |
3313 | daz | sîn | der | eine | war | genam | | that | of him | the | one | _ | became aware |
| der | verre | von | den | andern | lac | | who | some distance | from | the | others | was lying |
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