Erec | ich | en- | -habe | iu- | -s | gesaget | | I | _ | have | you | (about) it | told |
7056 | sô | vil | als | ich- | -s | weste | | as | much | as | I | (of) it | knew |
| dise | lieben | geste | | (with) these | dear | guests |
| begunden | si | vil | verre | klagen | | began | they | very | greatly | to lament |
7059 | und | gote | grôze | genâde | sagen | | and | (to) God | many | thanks | give |
| daz | Êrec | dannoch | lebete | | that | Erec | still | was alive |
| wan | im | vil | dicke | swebete | | for | (for) him | so | often | hovered |
7062 | sîn | lîp | in | selher | wâge | | his | life | in | such | danger |
| als | ûf | des | meres | wâge | | like | on | the | sea's | waves |
| ein | schefbrüchiger | man | | a | shipwrecked | man |
7065 | ûf | einem | brete | kæme | dan | | on | a | plank | came | from there |
| ûz | an | daz | stat | gerunnen | | (and) out | onto | _ | shore | swam |
| ofte | hete | er | gewunnen | | often | had | he | received |
7068 | ein | leben | zwîvellîchez | | a | life | anxious |
| und | disem | wol | gelîchez | | and | (to) this one | very | similar |
| nû | hete | in | an | der | genâden | sant | | now | had | him | on | the | (of) grace | sands |
7071 | ûz | kumbers | ünden | gesant | | from | (of) hardship | (the) waves | delivered |
| got | und | sîn | vrümekeit | | God | and | his | valor |
| daz | er | nû | allez | sîn | leit | | (so) that | he | now | all | (of) his | suffering |
7074 | hâte | überwunden | | had | survived |
| daz | er | ze | disen | stunden | | (so) that | he | at | this | time |
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