Erec | dâ | wider | und | ich | iu | sagen | wil | | _ | compared with | and | I | you | tell | shall |
4272 | daz | im | ze | lîden | noch | geschach | | (what) | (to) him | to | be endured | yet | was |
| beide | nôt | und | ungemach | | both | danger | and | discomfort |
| was | im | ze | teile | getân | | were | (to) him | (his) | share | given |
4275 | des | en- | -wart | er | niht | erlân | | of this | _ | was | he | nothing | spared |
| er | en- | -lite | vil | und | genuoc | | he | _ | suffered | greatly | and | enough |
| der | wec | in | zehant | truoc | | the | way | him | now | led |
4278 | in | ein | unkundez | lant | | into | a | strange | land |
| des | herre | was | im | unerkant | | whose | lord | was | (to) him | unknown |
| von | des | selben | manheit | | of | this | same one's | valor |
4281 | uns | ist | geseit | wunder | | (to) us | has | been told | wonders |
| er | was | ein | vil | kurzer | man | | he | was | a | very | short | man |
| mir | en- | -sî | gelogen | dar | an | | (I) | _ | (unless) have | been deceived | _ | about it |
4284 | vil | nâch | getwerges | genôz | | much | like | (a) dwarf's | equal |
| wan | daz | im | harte | grôz | | except | that | (on) him | very | large |
| wâren | arme | unde | bein | | were | (his) legs | and | arms |
4287 | dâ | zuo | den | brüsten | er | schein | | _ | in addition | (in his) | chest | he | was |
| kreftic | unde | dic | genuoc | | powerful | and | broad | enough |
| dar | under | er | ein | herze | truoc | | _ | there under | he | a | heart | carried |
4290 | volleclîche | manhaft | | completely | manly |
| daz | gap | im | ouch | die | kraft | | which | gave | him | also | (his) | strength |
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