Erec | sô | en- | -würde | er | strîtes | niht | vermiten | | so | _ | would | he | of battle | nothing | be spared |
503 | mit | rosse | bin | ich | wol | geriten | | with | (a) horse | am | I | well | mounted |
| sô | soldet | ir | mich | lân | rîten | | so | should | you | me | let | ride |
| mit | iuwer | tohter | Ênîten | | with | your | daughter | Enite |
506 | ûf | die | selben | hôchzît | | to | this | very | festival |
| ich | behabete | den | strît | | I | will prove | in | (the) contest |
| daz | si | schœner | wære | | that | she | more beautiful | is |
509 | und | næme | den | sparwære | | and | shall take | the | sparrow-hawk |
| dan | des | ritters | vriundîn | | than | the | knight's | lady-love |
| nû | sehet | ob | ez | müge | sîn | | now | consider | whether | it | possible | might be |
512 | und | tuot- | -z | ûf | daz | gedinge | | and | do | it | on | the | condition |
| ob | mir | alsô | gelinge | | that if | for me | thus | (it) happens |
| daz | mir | der | sige | belîbe | | that | to me | the | victory | remains |
515 | sô | nim | ich | si | ze | wîbe | | so | shall take | I | her | as | (my) wife |
| dar | umbe | durfet | ir- | -z | niht | lân | | _ | therefore | should | you | it | not | reject |
| si | en- | -hât | an | mir | niht | missetân | | she | _ | (would) find | in | me | nothing | failing |
518 | ez | mac | wol | mit | êren | sîn | | it | may | certainly | with | honor | happen |
| ich | künde | iu | den | vater | mîn | | I | shall tell | you | (about) | father | my |
| der | ist | der | künec | Lac | genant | | he | is | _ | King | Lac | called |
521 | beide | liute | unde | lant | | both | (his) people | and | land |
| lîp | und | allez | daz | ich | hân | | myself | and | everything | that | I | have |
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