Iwein | do- | -ne | mohte | der | gast | vür | noch | wider | wider | | then | not | could go forward | the | guest | _ | nor | could go backward | _ |
1127 | sus | was | mîn | her | Îwein | | so | was | _ | Sir | Iwein |
| zwischen | disen | porten | zwein | | between | these | gates | two |
| beslozzen | und | gevangen | | locked | and | caught |
1130 | swie | sêre | im | missegangen | | however | much | (for) him | gone badly |
| an | der | vancnüsse | wære | | in | the | imprisonment | (it) had |
| doch | was | sîn | meistiu | swære | | yet | was | his | greatest | sorrow |
1133 | daz | er | im | vor | dan | | that | he | him | _ | away |
| alsô | lebendec | entran | | thus | alive | had escaped |
| ich | wil | iu | von | dem | hûse | sagen | | I | want | you | about | the | hall | to tell |
1136 | dâ | er | inne | was | beslagen | | _ | he | in which | was | confined |
| ez | was | als | er | sît | selbe | jach | | it | was | as | he | later | himself | said |
| daz | er | sô | schœnez | nie | gesach | | that | he | so | beautiful (a one) | never | had seen |
1139 | weder | vor | des | noch | sît | | neither | _ | before | or | since |
| hôch | vest | unde | wît | | high | solid | and | vast |
| gemâlet | gar | von | golde | | painted | entirely | with | gold |
1142 | swer | dar- | -inne | wesen | solde | | whoever | _ | in it | been | could have |
| âne | vorhtlîche | swære | | without | fearful | adversity |
| den | dûhte- | -z | vreudebære | | (this one) | would have thought | it | delightful |
1145 | dô | suochte- | -r | wider | unde | vür | vür | | then | searched high | he | _ | and | searched low | _ |
| und | en- | -vant | venster | noch | tür | | and | _ | searchedfound | (neither) window | nor | door |
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