Erec | doch | müesten | si | sîn | gevangen | | yet | (if) would have | they | been | captured |
2677 | und | wære | daz | ergangen | | (then) | would have | that | happened |
| von | der | grôzen | überkraft | | from | the | great | superiority |
| diu | aller | dinge | ist | meisterschaft | | which | of all | things | is | master(y) |
2680 | wider | si | niemen | niht | mac | | against | it | no one | nothing | can (do) |
| wan | daz | Êrec | fil | de | roi | Lac | | except | that | Erec | fil | de | roi | Lac |
| schône | in | geriten | kam | | splendidly | _ | riding up | came |
2683 | als | vriunde | an | der | nôt | gezam | | as | (for) friends | in | _ | need | is fitting |
| rehte | sam | des | windes | dôz | | just | like | the | wind's | roar |
| sîn | manheit | was | alsô | grôz | | his | valor | was | so | great |
2686 | daz | er | si | alle | drâte | | that | he | they | all | quickly |
| umbe | gekêret | hâte | | _ | turned around | had |
| noch | muoste | er- | -z | enblanden | | yet (again) | had | he | _ | to exert |
2689 | grimme | den | handen | | fiercely | (his own) | hands |
| es- | -n | wære | anders | niht | geschehen | | it | _ | would have | otherwise | not | happened |
| als | diz | die | sîne | heten | ersehen | | when | this | those | if his | had | seen |
2692 | nû | kêrten | si | wider | dâ | zehant | | now | returned | they | _ | there | immediately |
| wider | in | tjostierte | Boidurant | | against | him | jousted | Boidurant |
| den | edeln | ritter | entsazte | er | | the | noble | knight | unseated | he |
2695 | ouch | mit | sînem | sper | | also | with | his | lance |
| guot | wort | bejagete | er | dâ | | great | acclaim | gained | he | there |
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