Erec | Êrec | im | antwürten | began | | Erec | him | to answer | began |
8425 | als | ein | unverzageter | man | | like | an | undaunted | man |
| des | herze | doch | vil | stæte | was | | whose | heart | indeed | most | steadfast | was |
| und | vester | dan | der | adamas | | and | harder | than | (a) | diamond |
8428 | von | dem | man | selhe | kraft | seit | | to | which | one | such | power | ascribes |
| unde | würde | der | geleit | | and (if) | were | it | placed |
| zwischen | zwein | bergen | stehelîn | | between | two | mountains | (of) steel |
8431 | wie | möhte- | -z | wunder | grœzer | sîn | | how | could | a | wonder | greater | be |
| die | zemüele | er | kleine | | them | would grind | it | small |
| ê | man | ez | dem | steine | | before | one | it | (on) the | stone |
8434 | iender | möhte | erkiesen | an | | anywhere | would | notice | _ |
| dannoch | hâte | dirre | man | | however | had | this | man |
| ze | knehtheit | stæteren | muot | | for | knighthood | a more steadfast | resolve |
8437 | dâ | von | daz | einer | slahte | bluot | | _ | because | _ | a | (certain) kind | of blood |
| disen | stein | geweichen | mac | | this | stone | soften | can |
| sô | -ne | kunde | âne | des | tôdes | slac | | thus | _ | could | except (for) | _ | death's | blow |
8440 | niht | sînen | muot | betwingen | | nothing | his | heart | defeat |
| noch | ûf | zageheit | bringen | | nor | to | cowardice | turn |
| der | rede | begunde | er | lachen | | (at these) | words | began | he | to laugh |
8443 | er | sprach | von | swelhen | sachen | | he | spoke | about | such | matters |
| ich | niht | vrâgen | getar | | (about which) I | not | (to) ask | would dare |
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