Erec | wan | kunde | doch | ich | iu | gesagen | | why not | could | indeed | I | you | persuade |
8330 | daz | ir | dise | reise | hætet | lân | | that | you | this | journey | had | abandoned |
| alsô | muoz | hie | bestân | | also | must | here | remain |
| diu | schœne | vrouwe | Ênîte | | the | beautiful | Lady | Enite |
8333 | missegât | iu | an | dem | strîte | | (if it) goes badly | (for) you | with | the | combat |
| nû | bewegete | der | vrouwen | smerze | | now | moved | the | ladies' | pain |
| Êrecke | sô | gar | sîn | herze | | (for) Erec | so | completely | his | heart |
8336 | sît | in | der | lîp | was | gestalt | | since | (for) them | the | body | _ | was set |
| sô | gar | in | vreuden | gewalt | | so | completely | in | joy's | control |
| daz | ir | jugent | und | ir | leben | | (and) that | their | youth | and | their | lives |
8339 | sô | gar | den | sorgen | was | ergeben | | so | completely | (to) | sorrow | were | given |
| wan | in | durch | ir | triuwe | | for | (for) them | because of | their | loyalty |
| der | jâmer | was | als | niuwe | | (their) | grief | was | as | new |
8342 | als | dô | si | sîn | begunden | | as | when | they | it | began |
| ie | under | stunden | | _ | _ | from time to time |
| sâhen | si | den | ellenden | man | | looked at | they | the | stranger | _ |
8345 | mit | jâmervarwen | ougen | an | | with | sorrow filled | eyes | _ |
| und | klageten | sînen | genæmen | lîp | | and | lamented | his | handsome | figure |
| und | erbarmte | in | daz | sîn | wîp | | and | had pity | (they) | that | his | wife |
8348 | solde | bî | in | dâ | bestân | | was | with | them | there | to remain |
| wan | des | wâren | si | gewis | âne | wân | | for | of this | were | they | certain | beyond | (a) doubt |
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