Erec | sô | wil | ich | iu | ir | ein | teil | sagen | | then | will | I | you | (about) them | a | part | tell |
7593 | und | doch | michels | mê | verdagen | | and | yet | much | more | omit |
| diu | vier | elementâ | | the | four | elements |
| stuonden | schînlîchen | dâ | | stood | clearly | there |
7596 | in | ir | sundervarwe | | in | its | (own) special color |
| und | in | iegelîchem | garwe | | and | with | each | completely |
| swaz | dem | undertænic | ist | | what | (to) it | subject | is |
7599 | diz | meisterte | ouch | starker | list | | these | wrought | also | great | skill |
| diu | erde | von | den | vieren | | the | earth | of | the | four |
| stuont | mit | ir | tieren | | stood | with | its | animals |
7602 | swaz | eht | der | dehein | man | | whatever | now | (of) which | no | man |
| in | sînem | muote | erkennen | kan | | in | his | mind | keep | can |
| an | walde | oder | an | gevilde | | in | woods | and | in | fields |
7605 | zam | oder | wilde | | tame | or | wild |
| dâ | stuonden | tier | in | iegelîcher | schaft | | there | stood | animals | in | every | form |
| geworht | von | selher | meisterschaft | | wrought | with | such | mastery |
7608 | sam | ez | wolde | sprechen | | as if | it | were | to speak |
| und | bildes | reht | brechen | | and | picture's | rights | break |
| dâ | bî | daz | mer | swebete | | _ | next to it | the | sea | was rolling |
7611 | dar | inne | sam | er | lebete | | _ | in it | as if | it | (were) alive |
| der | visch | bî | dem | besunder | | _ | fish | _ | next to it | separately |
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