Erec | nû | reit | der | wirt | selbe | vor | in | | now | rode | the | host | himself | ahead of | him |
8755 | gegen | dem | boumgarten | hin | | towards | the | park | _ |
| daz | er | in | wîste | an | die | stat | | (so) that | he | him | could direct | to | (that) | place |
| zuo | dem | ritter | als | Êrec | bat | | to | the | knight | as | Erec | had requested |
8758 | ze | dem | verholnen | bürgetor | | to | the | hidden | gate |
| hie | beleip | daz | volc | allez | vor | | here | remained | the | people | all | before it |
| âne | vrouwen | Ênîten | | except for | Lady | Enite |
8761 | ouch | muoste | mite | rîten | | also | was allowed | _ | to ride with (them) |
| Guivreiz | der | herre | | Guivreiz | the | Lord |
| ir | menige | wart | niht | merre | | of them | (the) company | was | not | greater |
8764 | niuwan | dise | viere | | than | these | four |
| 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 |
8767 | des | si | von | schulden | muosten | jehen | | (of) which | they | _ | quite rightly | had | to admit |
| ez | wære | ein | seltsæne | dinc | | it | was | a | strange | affair |
| hie | was | gestalt | ein | wîter | rinc | | here | was | set up | a | wide | ring |
8770 | von | eichînen | stecken | | of | oak | poles |
| des | wunderte | Êrecken | | (at) this | wondered | Erec |
| ir | iegelîch | was | sus | bedaht | | (of) them | each | was | thus | topped |
8773 | ein | mannes | houbet | dr- | -ûf | gestaht | | a | man's | head | _ | on it | was struck |
| wan | einer | der | was | lære | | except for | one | which | was | empty |
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