Erec | den | ritter | hete | gevangen | | the | knight | had | taken captive |
4599 | er | sprach | ez- | -n | ist | niht | ergangen | | he | spoke | it | _ | has | not | turned out |
| als | ir | wænet | daz | ez | sî | | as | you | think | that | it | has |
| und | sagete | in | dâ | bî | | and | told | them | _ | thereby |
4602 | vil | rehte | diu | mære | | quite | correctly | the | story |
| wie- | -z | ergangen | wære | | (about) how | it | happened | had |
| er | sprach | swem | ich | nû | liep | bin | | he | spoke | (to) whomever | I | now | dear | am |
4605 | der | kêre | dar | an | sînen | sin | | he | would turn | _ | there on | his | attention |
| daz | er | emphâhe | schône | | that | he | receive | warmly |
| daz | ich | iu- | -s | immer | lône | | (so) that | I | you | (for) it | always | may reward |
4608 | den | aller | tiuristen | man | | the | very | finest | man |
| des | ich | ie | künde | gewan | | (of) whom | I | even | knowledge | gained |
| ouch | tâten | si | daz | | also | did | they | that |
4611 | Êrec | en- | -wart | nie | baz | | Erec | _ | was | never | better |
| gehandelet | anderswâ | | treated | elsewhere |
| dan | ouch | des | selben | nahtes | dâ | | than | also | (during) that | same | night | here |
4614 | als | des | âbendes | si | gâzen | | when | (in) the | evening | they | had eaten |
| und | dar | nâch | gesâzen | | and | _ | afterwards | sat (together) |
| der | wirt | sprach | herre | ez | ist | mîn | rât | | the | host | said | Sir | it | is | my | advice |
4617 | daz | ir | uns | einen | arzât | lât | | that | you | us | a | doctor | allow |
| gewinnen | z- | -unsern | wunden | | (to) find | for | our | wounds |
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