Erec | als | er | von | sînen | genâden | hât | | as | He | in | His | mercy | has (done) |
9456 | hiute | nimt | ez | ende | | today | takes | it | (an) end |
| ein | teil | mit | missewende | | a | (small) measure | with | misfortune |
| daz | ich | lîhte | sol | verklagen | | that | I | easily | shall | get over |
9459 | herre | nû | wil | ich | iu | sagen | | Sir | now | shall | I | you | tell |
| wem | ich | umbe | diz | leben | | (to) whom | I | for | this | life |
| mîne | triuwe | hân | gegeben | | my | loyalty | have | given |
9462 | ez | kam | alsô | daz | ich | gereit | | it | came about | thus | that | I | rode |
| hie | vor | in | mîner | kintheit | | _ | out | in | my | youth |
| von | hinnen | in | ein | ander | lant | | from | here | into | _ | another | land |
9465 | dâ | ich | dise | vrouwen | vant | | where | I | this | lady | found |
| in | ir | muoter | gewalt | | in | her | mother's | care |
| ein | kint | wol | einlif | jâr | alt | | a | child | fully | eleven | years | old |
9468 | von | edelem | künne | | of | noble | family |
| ouch | en- | -sach | ich | grœzer | wünne | | also | _ | saw | I | greater | beauty |
| nie | an | kindes | lîbe | | never | in | (a) child's | figure |
9471 | von | manne | noch | von | wîbe | | _ | male | or | _ | female |
| als | mir | mîn | sin | dô | verjach | | as | me | my | senses | there | told |
| und | dô | si | mîn | ouge | ersach | | and | when | her | my | eyes | saw |
9474 | sô | edel | und | sô | wünneclich | | so | noble | and | so | lovely |
| dô | nam | si | mîn | herze | an | sich | | then | took | she | my | heart | for | herself |
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