Iwein | beide | des | willen | unt- | -ter | kraft | | both | (in their) | desire | and | (their) | strength |
7256 | ez- | -n | wac | ir | erriu | rîterschaft | | _ | _ | weighed | their | earlier | knightly combat |
| engegen | dirre | niht | ein | strô | | against | this | not (even) | a | straw |
| der | sî | begunden | aber | dô | | which | they | began | again | there |
7259 | ir | slege | wâren | kreftec | ê | | (if) their | blows | were | powerful | before |
| nû | kreftiger | und | wart | ir | mê | | now | more powerful | and | were | (of) them | more |
| ouch | sach | disen | kampf | an | | also | were watching | this | battle | _ |
7262 | manec | kampfwîse | man | | many | battle experienced | men |
| ir | deheines | ouge | was | vür | wâr | | (of) them | each one's | eyes | ware | in | truth |
| weder | sô | wîse | noch | sô | clâr | | neither | so | experienced | nor | so | keen |
7265 | hete- | -r | genomen | ûf | sînen | eit | | (if) that | he | promised | on | his | oath |
| ze | sagenne | die | wârheit | | to | tell | the | truth |
| weder | ir- | -z | des | tages | ie | | which | (of) them | _ | on (this) | day | in any way |
7268 | gewunnen | hete | bezzer | hie | | in advantage | had been | better | here |
| alsô | grôz | als | umb | ein | hâr | | so | much | as | by | a | hair |
| des- | -ne | möhte- | -r | vür | wâr | | that | _ | could | he | in | truth |
7271 | ir | dewederm | nie | gejehen | | (of) them | (to) one | never | grant |
| ez- | -n | wart | nie | glîcher | kampf | gesehen | | (there) | _ | was | never | (a) more equal | battle | seen |
| nû | sorget | man | unde | wîp | | now | were concerned | men | and | women |
7274 | umb | ir | êre | und | umb | ir | lîp | | for | their | honor | and | for | their | lives |
| und | möhten | sî- | -z | in | beiden | | and (if) | could | they | (from) it | them | both |
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