Erec | als | ich | iu | sage | vür | wâr | | as | I | you | tell | _ | in truth |
8418 | michel | schade | dâ | von | geschehen | | much | harm | _ | from this | come |
| ouch | habe | wir | beide | gesehen | | moreover | have | we | both | seen |
| sô | vil | ander | dinge | | so | many | other | things |
8421 | diu | uns | sus | genuoc | ringe | | which | (for) us | thus | enough | easy |
| die | zît | mugen | gemachen | | the | time | can | pass |
| nû | reden | von | andern | sachen | | now | (let's) speak | of | other | matters |
8424 | Êrec | im | antwürten | began | | Erec | him | to answer | began |
| als | ein | unverzageter | man | | like | an | undaunted | man |
| des | herze | doch | vil | stæte | was | | whose | heart | indeed | most | steadfast | was |
8427 | und | vester | dan | der | adamas | | and | harder | than | (a) | diamond |
| von | dem | man | selhe | kraft | seit | | to | which | one | such | power | ascribes |
| unde | würde | der | geleit | | and (if) | were | it | placed |
8430 | zwischen | zwein | bergen | stehelîn | | between | two | mountains | (of) steel |
| wie | möhte- | -z | wunder | grœzer | sîn | | how | could | a | wonder | greater | be |
| die | zemüele | er | kleine | | them | would grind | it | small |
8433 | ê | man | ez | dem | steine | | before | one | it | (on) the | stone |
| iender | möhte | erkiesen | an | | anywhere | would | notice | _ |
| dannoch | hâte | dirre | man | | however | had | this | man |
8436 | ze | knehtheit | stæteren | muot | | for | knighthood | a more steadfast | resolve |
| dâ | von | daz | einer | slahte | bluot | | _ | because | _ | a | (certain) kind | of blood |
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