Erec | und | handelten | den | guoten | kneht | | and | laid hands on | the | good | knight |
5414 | und | wære | er | begangen | | and | had | he | committed |
| an | diebes | stat | gevangen | | (and) in | (a) thief's | place | been captured |
| selher | zuht | wære | ze | vil | | such (a) | punishment | would have been | too | severe |
5417 | er | was | geslagen | unz | ûf | daz | zil | | he | had been | whipped | (up) | to | the | point |
| daz | er | des | bluotes | was | ersigen | | that | he | (of) | blood | was | depleted |
| unde | nû | sô | gar | geswigen | | and | now | so | completely | silenced |
5420 | daz | in | schrîens | verdrôz | | that | (for) him | crying out | was too much |
| daz | bluot | regens | wîs | vlôz | | (his) | blood | in rain's | manner | flowed |
| des | rosses | sîten | hin | ze | tal | | (from) the | horses | sides | away | _ | downwards |
5423 | ez | was | bluotic | über | al | | it | was | bloody | over | all |
| der | ritter | grôze | quâle | leit | | the | knight | great | torment | suffered |
| sô | unvernomen | arbeit | | such | unheard of | hardship |
5426 | daz | nimmer | man | âne | den | tôt | | (so) that | never | one | except for | _ | death |
| möhte | erlîden | grœzer | nôt | | could | suffer | greater | distress |
| danne | im | dô | geschach | | than | (to) him | there | happened |
5429 | als | diz | Êrec | ersach | | when | this | Erec | saw |
| nû | bewegete | des | ritters | smerze | | now | moved | the | knight's | pain |
| sô | sêre | sîn | herze | | so | greatly | his | heart |
5432 | daz | er | bî | im | ê | wære | erslagen | | that | he | with | him | rather | were | slain |
| ê | er | in- | -z | hæte | vertragen | | than that | he | (from) them | (it) | would | tolerate (to continue) |
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