Erec | immer | mêre | daz | ez | | forever | more | that | he |
1055 | baz | vrouwen | êre | | better | ladies | honor |
| daz | en- | -hâte | doch | der | guote | | of this | _ | had | of course | the | good man |
| niht | in | sînem | muote | | nothing | in | his | mind |
1058 | daz | er | alsô | tuon | solde | | that | he | thus | do | should |
| wan | daz | er | gerne | wolde | | except | that | he | rather | wanted |
| daz | getwerc | warnen | dâ | mite | | the | dwarf | to warn | _ | there with |
1061 | daz | ez | ez | dar | nâch | vermite | | so that | he | it | _ | afterwards | avoided |
| und | liez | ez | âne | grôze | bete | | and | refrained from | it | without | much | pleading |
| daz | er | im | des | niht | en- | -tete | | that | he | to him | of this | nothing | _ | do |
1064 | doch | rach | er- | -z | ze | rehte | | but | avenged | he | him | _ | justly |
| er | hiez | ez | zwêne | knehte | | he | ordered | him | two | servants |
| ûf | einen | tisch | strecken | | over | a | table | stretch |
1067 | unde | wol | durchrecken | | and | thoroughly | thrash |
| mit | guoten | spizholzen | zwein | | with | good | switches | two |
| daz | ez | ûf | sînem | rücke | schein | | so that | it | on | his | back | showed |
1070 | dar | nâch | wol | zwelf | wochen | | _ | afterwards | (a) good | twelve | weeks |
| sîn | unzuht | wart | gerochen | | his | ill breeding | was | punished |
| daz | daz | bluot | abe | im | ran | | such that | _ | blood | from | him | ran (down his back) |
1073 | nû | begunde | wîp | unde | man | | now | began | women | and | men |
| under | in | gemeinlîchen | jehen | | among | themselves | alike | to say |
|