Iwein | vehten | unde | ringen | | fighting | and | struggling |
408 | mit | eislîchen | dingen | | in (a) | terrible | manner |
| dâ | vâhten | mit | grimme | | there | fought | with | fury |
| mit | griulîcher | stimme | | with | horrifying | roars |
411 | wisente | und | ûrrinder | | bison | and | aurochs |
| dô | gehabt | ich | hinder | | then | kept | I | back |
| und | rou | mich | daz | ich | dar | was | komen | | and | regretted | _ | that | I | there | had | come |
414 | und | heten | sî | mîn | war | genomen | | and | had | they | (of) me | _ | caught sight |
| so- | -ne | triut | ich | mich | anders | niht | erwern | | so | _ | trusted | I | myself | otherwise | not | to have defended |
| wan | ich | bat | mich | got | genern | | except that | I | asked | me | God | to protect |
417 | vil | gerne | wold | ich | von | dan | | very | much | wanted (to leave) | I | from | there |
| do | gesach | ich | sitzen | einen | man | | then | saw | I | sitting | a | man |
| in | almitten | under | in | | _ | right in (the) midst | among | them |
420 | daz | getrôste | mir | den | sin | | that | reassured | (for) me | my | spirit |
| dô | ich | aber | im | nâher | kam | | when | I | however | (to) him | closer | came |
| und | ich | sîn | rehte | war | genam | | and | I | him | clearly | _ | could see |
423 | dô | vorht | ich | in | alsô | sêre | | then | feared | I | him | just as | much |
| sam | diu | tier | ode | mêre | | as | the | beasts | or | (even) more |
| sîn | menneschlîch | bilde | | his | human | form |
426 | was | anders | harte | wilde | | was | beyond this | quite | wild |
| er | was | einem | Môre | gelîch | | he | was | a | Moor | like |
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