Erec | unde | nû | sô | gar | geswigen | | and | now | so | completely | silenced |
5420 | daz | in | schrîens | verdrôz | | that | (for) him | crying out | was too much |
| daz | bluot | regens | wîs | vlôz | | (his) | blood | in rain's | manner | flowed |
| des | rosses | sîten | hin | ze | tal | | (from) the | horses | sides | away | _ | downwards |
5423 | ez | was | bluotic | über | al | | it | was | bloody | over | all |
| der | ritter | grôze | quâle | leit | | the | knight | great | torment | suffered |
| sô | unvernomen | arbeit | | such | unheard of | hardship |
5426 | daz | nimmer | man | âne | den | tôt | | (so) that | never | one | except for | _ | death |
| möhte | erlîden | grœzer | nôt | | could | suffer | greater | distress |
| danne | im | dô | geschach | | than | (to) him | there | happened |
5429 | als | diz | Êrec | ersach | | when | this | Erec | saw |
| nû | bewegete | des | ritters | smerze | | now | moved | the | knight's | pain |
| sô | sêre | sîn | herze | | so | greatly | his | heart |
5432 | daz | er | bî | im | ê | wære | erslagen | | that | he | with | him | rather | were | slain |
| ê | er | in- | -z | hæte | vertragen | | than that | he | (from) them | (it) | would | tolerate (to continue) |
| und | daz | ez | an | sîner | varwe | schein | | and | that | it | on | his | color | was apparent |
5435 | er | sprach | zuo | den | zwein | | he | said | to | the | two |
| ich- | -n | vrâge | iu | niht | ze | leide | | I | _ | ask | you | not | in | offense |
5438 | durch | got | muget | ir- | -z | mich | wizzen | lân | | for the sake of | God | must | you | (it) | me | know | let |
| waz | hât | iu | der | man | getân | | what | has | (to) you | the | man | done |
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