Erec | unde | nû | wol | zwelf | jâr | | and | now | well | twelve | years |
8417 | als | ich | iu | sage | vür | wâr | | as | I | you | tell | _ | in truth |
| michel | schade | dâ | von | geschehen | | much | harm | _ | from this | come |
| ouch | habe | wir | beide | gesehen | | moreover | have | we | both | seen |
8420 | sô | vil | ander | dinge | | so | many | other | things |
| diu | uns | sus | genuoc | ringe | | which | (for) us | thus | enough | easy |
| die | zît | mugen | gemachen | | the | time | can | pass |
8423 | nû | reden | von | andern | sachen | | now | (let's) speak | of | other | matters |
| Êrec | im | antwürten | began | | Erec | him | to answer | began |
| als | ein | unverzageter | man | | like | an | undaunted | man |
8426 | des | herze | doch | vil | stæte | was | | whose | heart | indeed | most | steadfast | was |
| und | vester | dan | der | adamas | | and | harder | than | (a) | diamond |
| von | dem | man | selhe | kraft | seit | | to | which | one | such | power | ascribes |
8429 | unde | würde | der | geleit | | and (if) | were | it | placed |
| zwischen | zwein | bergen | stehelîn | | between | two | mountains | (of) steel |
| wie | möhte- | -z | wunder | grœzer | sîn | | how | could | a | wonder | greater | be |
8432 | die | zemüele | er | kleine | | them | would grind | it | small |
| ê | man | ez | dem | steine | | before | one | it | (on) the | stone |
| iender | möhte | erkiesen | an | | anywhere | would | notice | _ |
8435 | dannoch | hâte | dirre | man | | however | had | this | man |
| ze | knehtheit | stæteren | muot | | for | knighthood | a more steadfast | resolve |
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