Iwein | wisente | und | ûrrinder | | bison | and | aurochs |
412 | dô | gehabt | ich | hinder | | then | kept | I | back |
| und | rou | mich | daz | ich | dar | was | komen | | and | regretted | _ | that | I | there | had | come |
| und | heten | sî | mîn | war | genomen | | and | had | they | (of) me | _ | caught sight |
415 | so- | -ne | triut | ich | mich | anders | niht | erwern | | so | _ | trusted | I | myself | otherwise | not | to have defended |
| wan | ich | bat | mich | got | genern | | except that | I | asked | me | God | to protect |
| vil | gerne | wold | ich | von | dan | | very | much | wanted (to leave) | I | from | there |
418 | do | gesach | ich | sitzen | einen | man | | then | saw | I | sitting | a | man |
| in | almitten | under | in | | _ | right in (the) midst | among | them |
| daz | getrôste | mir | den | sin | | that | reassured | (for) me | my | spirit |
421 | dô | ich | aber | im | nâher | kam | | when | I | however | (to) him | closer | came |
| und | ich | sîn | rehte | war | genam | | and | I | him | clearly | _ | could see |
| dô | vorht | ich | in | alsô | sêre | | then | feared | I | him | just as | much |
424 | sam | diu | tier | ode | mêre | | as | the | beasts | or | (even) more |
| sîn | menneschlîch | bilde | | his | human | form |
| was | anders | harte | wilde | | was | beyond this | quite | wild |
427 | er | was | einem | Môre | gelîch | | he | was | a | Moor | like |
| michel | unde | als | eislîch | | huge | and | also | terrible |
| daz | ez | niemen | wol | geloubet | | that | it | no one | really | would believe |
430 | zewâre | im | was | sîn | houbet | | in truth | (on) him | was | his | head |
| grœzer | dan | einem | ûre | | larger | than | an | auerochs |
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