Iwein | dan | schiet | ich | unde | reit | vil | vruo | | then | took leave | I | and | rode | very | early |
397 | ze | walde | von | gevilde | | into (the) | woods | from (the) | fields |
| dâ | râmet | ich | der | wilde | | there | sought (out) | I | the | wilderness |
| und | vant | nâch | mitten | morgen | | and | found | after | _ | midmorning |
400 | in | dem | walde | verborgen | | in | the | woods | hidden |
| ein | breitez | geriute | | a | broad | clearing |
| âne | die | liute | | without | _ | people |
403 | da | gesach | ich | mir | vil | leide | | there | saw | I | (to) me | (of) great | distress |
| ein | swære | ougenweide | | a | troubling | sight |
| aller | der | tiere | hande | | all | of | beasts | sorts |
406 | die | man | mir | ie | genande | | which | one | (for) me | ever | had named |
| vehten | unde | ringen | | fighting | and | struggling |
| mit | eislîchen | dingen | | in (a) | terrible | manner |
409 | dâ | vâhten | mit | grimme | | there | fought | with | fury |
| mit | griulîcher | stimme | | with | horrifying | roars |
| wisente | und | ûrrinder | | bison | and | aurochs |
412 | dô | gehabt | ich | hinder | | then | kept | I | back |
| und | rou | mich | daz | ich | dar | was | komen | | and | regretted | _ | that | I | there | had | come |
| und | heten | sî | mîn | war | genomen | | and | had | they | (of) me | _ | caught sight |
415 | so- | -ne | triut | ich | mich | anders | niht | erwern | | so | _ | trusted | I | myself | otherwise | not | to have defended |
| wan | ich | bat | mich | got | genern | | except that | I | asked | me | God | to protect |
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