Erec | als | ich | iu | ê | gesaget | hân | | as | I | you | before | told | have |
8462 | rehte | zuo | der | mâze | | exactly | in | the | manner |
| als | im | ûf | der | strâze | | as | (to) him | on | the | road |
| sîn | geselle | sagete | | his | companion | had told |
8465 | und | ob | der | iht | verdagete | | and | if | he | anything | had left out |
| ze | vollen | sagete | er | im | daz | | in | full | told | he | him | that |
| und | beschiet | in | des | baz | | and | explained | (to) him | it | better |
8468 | er | sagete | der | boumgarte | | he | said | (about) the | park |
| der | wære | gevestent | harte | | it | was | fortified | strongly |
| und | swie | er | wære | umbegeben | | and | how | it | was | enclosed |
8471 | dar | in | en- | -dorfte | niemen | streben | | _ | therein | _ | dare | no one | enter |
| dem | ze | ihte | mære | | (for) whom | of | any | value |
| lîp | und | êre | wære | | life | and | honor | were |
8474 | er | sprach | dâ | wonet | inne | | he | said | _ | lives | therein |
| mit | sîner | vriundinne | | with | his | lady-friend |
| ein | ritter | sô | manhaft | | a | knight | so | manly |
8477 | daz | eht | er | mit | sîner | kraft | | that | actually | he | with | his (own) | strength |
| alle | die | erslagen | hât | | all | those | slain | has |
| die | des | niht | wolden | haben | rât | | who | about this | nothing | would | take | advice |
8480 | von | tumbes | herzen | stiure | | (because) of | (a) foolish | heart's | insistance |
| si | suochten | âventiure | | they | sought | adventure |
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