Erec | ob- | -z | iuwer | muot | niht | vervât | | if | it | your | thinking | not | does consider |
907 | vür | zageheit | sô | ist | mîn | rât | | as | cowardice | so | is | my | advice |
| daz | wir | diz | blœde | vehten | lân | | that | we | this | feeble | fighting | abandon |
| und | eine | wîle | ruowen | gân | | and | (for) a | while | rest | go |
910 | dô | was | Êrec | der | rede | vrô | | there | was | Erec | (at) the | words | pleased |
| ze | ruowe | sâzen | si | dô | | to | rest | sat down | they | there |
| ir | houbet | si | enbunden | | their | helmets | they | loosened |
913 | und | als | si | des | emphunden | | and | when | they | _ | felt |
| daz | si | geruowet | hâten | | that | they | rested | had |
| zesamene | si | dô | trâten | | _ | they | then | faced off together |
916 | und | griffen | an | ir | altez | spil | | and | took up | _ | their | old | game |
| als | ich | iu | nû | sagen | wil | | as | I | to you | now | relate | will |
| mit | guoter | kunst | mit | niuwer | kraft | | with | great | skill | with | new | strength |
919 | und | mit | alsô | gelîcher | meisterschaft | | and | with | just as | equal | mastery |
| si | spilnde | beliben | | they | playing | remained |
| dâ | si- | -z | vil | lange | getriben | | where | they | it | very | long | carried on |
922 | daz | witzige | unde | tumbe | | so that | (the) well-versed | and | (the) novices |
| die | stuonden | dar | umbe | | who | stood | _ | there about |
| mit | nihte | erkiesen | kunden | | _ | nothing | tell | could |
925 | weder | zuo | den | stunden | | whether | at | the | time |
| ein- | -s | ougen | wæger | hæte | | one | by an | eye | advantage | had |
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