Erec | ze | dem | verholnen | bürgetor | | to | the | hidden | gate |
8759 | hie | beleip | daz | volc | allez | vor | | here | remained | the | people | all | before it |
| âne | vrouwen | Ênîten | | except for | Lady | Enite |
| ouch | muoste | mite | rîten | | also | was allowed | _ | to ride with (them) |
8762 | Guivreiz | der | herre | | Guivreiz | the | Lord |
| ir | menige | wart | niht | merre | | of them | (the) company | was | not | greater |
| niuwan | dise | viere | | than | these | four |
8765 | nû | kâmen | si | vil | schiere | | now | came | they | very | quickly (therein) |
| daz | si | daz | begunden | ane | sehen | | (so) that | they | (of) that | began | _ | to catch sight |
| des | si | von | schulden | muosten | jehen | | (of) which | they | _ | quite rightly | had | to admit |
8768 | ez | wære | ein | seltsæne | dinc | | it | was | a | strange | affair |
| hie | was | gestalt | ein | wîter | rinc | | here | was | set up | a | wide | ring |
| von | eichînen | stecken | | of | oak | poles |
8771 | des | wunderte | Êrecken | | (at) this | wondered | Erec |
| ir | iegelîch | was | sus | bedaht | | (of) them | each | was | thus | topped |
| ein | mannes | houbet | dr- | -ûf | gestaht | | a | man's | head | _ | on it | was struck |
8774 | wan | einer | der | was | lære | | except for | one | which | was | empty |
| wâ | von | daz | wære | | _ | how | that | came about |
| dâ | hienc | ein | grôz | horn | an | | there | hung | a | large | horn | on it |
8777 | Êrec | dô | vrâgen | began | | Erec | then | to ask | began |
| wie- | -z | hier | umbe | wære | getân | | how | it | _ | concerning this | had been | done |
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