Iwein | daz | die | besten | gesellen | | that | the | best | comrades |
6958 | ein | ander | kempfen | wellen | | one | another | to fight | want |
| die | iender | lebeten | bî | der | zît | | who | ever | lived | at | (this) | time |
| sweder | nû | tôt | gelît | | (if) either | now | dead | lay |
6961 | von | des | anderen | hant | | at | the | other's | hands |
| und | im | dâ | nâch | wirt | erkant | | and | (to) him | _ | afterwards | became | know |
| wen | er | hât | erslagen | | whom | he | had | slain |
6964 | daz | wirt | sîn | êwigez | clagen | | this | would be | his | eternal | lament |
| möhten | sî | nû | beide | gesigen | | (if) might | they | now | both | be victorious |
| od | beide | sigelôs | geligen | | or | both | without victory | lay |
6967 | ode | abe | unverwâzen | | or | however | unharmed |
| den | strît | beide | lâzen | | the | battle | both | abandon |
| so | si | sich | erkennent | beide | | so | they | themselves | recognized | both |
6970 | daz | wær | in | vür | die | leide | | that | were | (or) them | for | the | pain |
| daz | liebest | und | daz | beste | | the | dearest | and | the | best |
| ja- | -ne | wâren | sî | niht | geste | | indeed | _ | were | they | not | strangers |
6973 | des | willen | sam | der | ougen | | (in their) | hearts | as | (in their) | eyes |
| ir | ietwederm | was | tougen | | (of) them | (from) each | was | concealed |
| daz | in | kempfen | solde | ein | man | | that | him | fight | shall | a | man |
6976 | der | liebest | den | er | ie | gewan | | the | dearest | whom | he | ever | had known |
| sît | daz | der | kampf | wesen | sol | | since | that | the | battle | be | must |
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