Erec | doch | wirt | ez | versuochet | | yet | will | it | be attempted |
6851 | ob | es | got | geruochet | | if | it | God | wills |
| nû | wâfente | er | sich | drâte | | now | armed | he | himself | quickly |
| und | swaz | er | ritter | hâte | | and | whatever | he | (on) knights | had |
6854 | nû | wart | ir | wol | in | der | zal | | now | was | (of) them | indeed | in | _ | number |
| drîzec | ritter | über | al | | thirty | knights | in | all |
| diu | ros | brâhte | man | in | dô | | the | horses | brought | one | (to) them | there |
6857 | zwîvelhaft | und | unvrô | | anxious | and | grieving |
| sô | kêrte | der | künec | balde | | so | turned | the | king | quickly |
| engegen | deme | walde | | towards | the | forest |
6860 | daz | er | dem | ellenden | man | | (so) that | he | the | stranger | _ |
| ûz | dem | lande | hulfe | dan | | out (of) | the | land | might help | from there |
| nû | gerieten | si | beide | einen | wec | | now | chose (by chance) | they | both | a | way |
6863 | an | dirre | sîten | Êrec | | on | one | end | Erec |
| unde | jenenthalp | er | | and | on the other side | he |
| der | eine | hin | der | ander | her | | the | one | there | the | other | here |
6866 | daz | si | niht | mohten | bewarn | | (so) | they | not | could | turn (off) |
| si | en- | -müesten | ein | ander | widervarn | | they | _ | had | one | another | to meet |
| alsô | vuocte- | -z | diu | geschiht | | so | had ordained | it | _ | fate |
6869 | nû | en- | -weste | ir | deweder | niht | | now | _ | knew | (of) them | neither | nothing |
| umbe | des | andern | reise | | about | the | others | path |
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