Erec | unz | er | der | ahten | tete | war | | until | he | the | eighth | _ | noticed |
8270 | diu | niunde | in | dûhte | gekrœnet | | the | ninth | (to) him | seemed | crowned (with beauty) |
| diu | zehende | baz | geschœnet | | the | tenth | more | beautifully formed |
| mit | dem | gotes | vlîze | | with | _ | God's | care |
8273 | der | selben | ze | itewîze | | (this) | same (one) | to | shame |
| sô | was | diu | einlifte | getân | | so | was | the | eleventh | made |
| hæte | si | diu | zwelfte | lân | | (if) had | her | the | twelfth | let |
8276 | diu | drîzehende | wære | vollekomen | | the | thirteenth | would have been | perfect |
| hete | ir- | -z | diu | vierzehende | niht | benomen | | had | (from) her | it | the | fourteenth | not | prevented |
| diu | vünfzehende | was | ein | wunschkint | | the | fifteenth | was | (the) | ideal |
8279 | doch | was | ir | aller | schœne | ein | wint | | yet | was | her | (of all) | beauty | _ | nothing |
| wider | die | sehzehenden | vrouwen | | compared with | the | sixteenth | lady |
| noch | mohte | er | gerner | schouwen | | still | could | he | like more | to look at |
8282 | die | sibenzehenden | diu | dâ | saz | | the | seventeenth | who | there | was sitting |
| doch | geviel | im | diu | ahzehende | baz | | yet | pleased | him | the | eighteenth | more |
| dan | diser | vrouwen | dehein | | than | (of) these | ladies | any |
8285 | unz | im | diu | niunzehende | erschein | | until | (to) him | the | nineteenth | appeared |
| dô | muoste | im | wol | gevallen | | then | had | him | more | to please |
| diu | zweinzegest | vor | in | allen | | the | twentieth | before | them | all |
8288 | wer | möhte | si | gar | geschrîben | | who | could | them | all | describe |
| diu | swachest | under | den | wîben | | the | least | among | the | ladies |
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