Erec| | sô | sêre | daz | dem | armen | | so | severly | that | (on) the | poor (one) |
| 5410 | diu | hût | hin | abe | hie | | the | skin | down | _ | was beaten |
| | von | dem | houbete | an | diu | knie | | from | (his) | head | to | (his) | knees |
| | si | brâchen | vaste | ritters | reht | | they | broke | completely | knight's | rights |
| 5413 | und | handelten | den | guoten | kneht | | and | laid hands on | the | good | knight |
| | und | wære | er | begangen | | and | had | he | committed |
| | an | diebes | stat | gevangen | | (and) in | (a) thief's | place | been captured |
| 5416 | selher | zuht | wære | ze | vil | | such (a) | punishment | would have been | too | severe |
| | er | was | geslagen | unz | ûf | daz | zil | | he | had been | whipped | (up) | to | the | point |
| | daz | er | des | bluotes | was | ersigen | | that | he | (of) | blood | was | depleted |
| 5419 | unde | nû | sô | gar | geswigen | | and | now | so | completely | silenced |
| | daz | in | schrîens | verdrôz | | that | (for) him | crying out | was too much |
| | daz | bluot | regens | wîs | vlôz | | (his) | blood | in rain's | manner | flowed |
| 5422 | des | rosses | sîten | hin | ze | tal | | (from) the | horses | sides | away | _ | downwards |
| | ez | was | bluotic | über | al | | it | was | bloody | over | all |
| | der | ritter | grôze | quâle | leit | | the | knight | great | torment | suffered |
| 5425 | sô | unvernomen | arbeit | | such | unheard of | hardship |
| | daz | nimmer | man | âne | den | tôt | | (so) that | never | one | except for | _ | death |
| | möhte | erlîden | grœzer | nôt | | could | suffer | greater | distress |
| 5428 | danne | im | dô | geschach | | than | (to) him | there | happened |
| | als | diz | Êrec | ersach | | when | this | Erec | saw |
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