Erec| | und | der | bart | snêvar | | and | the | beard | snow-white |
| 2082 | nider | gewahsen | alsô | tief | | _ | grown down | so | long |
| | daz | er | in | ûf | die | gürtel | swief | | that | it | them | to | (their) | belts | swung |
| | der | aller | jungest | daz | ist | wâr | | the | very | youngest | this | is | true |
| 2085 | der | hete | vierzic | und | hundert | jâr | | (he) | was | forty | and | one hundred | years (old) |
| | nû | vernemet | waz | ir | mêre | sî | | now | hear | what | of them | more | are |
| | der | getwerge | künec | Bîlêî | | (of) the | dwarfs | king | Bilei |
| 2088 | und | sîn | bruoder | Brîans | genant | | and | his | brother | Brians | by name |
| | Antipodes | hiez | ir | lant | | Antipodes | was called | their | land |
| | ez | en- | -wurden | einer | muoter | kint | | (there) | never | were | of one | mother | children |
| 2091 | die | bruoder | geheizen | sint | | who | brothers | called | are |
| | nie | ungelîcher | danne | sî | | never | more unlike | than | they |
| | Brîans | und | Bîlêî | | Brians | and | Bilei |
| 2094 | uns | saget | daz | wâre | mære | | us | tells | the | true | account |
| | daz | Brîans | langer | wære | | that | Brians | taller | was |
| | dan | iemen | bî | sînen | zîten | | than | anyone | in | his | time |
| 2097 | in | allen | landen | wîten | | in | all | lands | far and wide |
| | anderhalbe | spanne | | one and one half | spans |
| | sô | saget | man | uns | danne | | yet | tells | one | us | then |
| 2100 | daz | dehein | getwerc | en- | -wære | noch | sî | | that | no | dwarf | _ | was | nor | is |
| | kurzer | danne | Bîlêî | | shorter | than | Bilei |
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