Iwein | sich | von | dem | hove | næmen | an | | themselves | at | the | court | should undertake | _ |
4149 | daz | sî- | -z | beredten | wider | mich | | that | they | _ | should bring action | against | me |
| einen | rîter | vund | ich | | a | knight | would find | I |
| der | mit | in | allen | drin | strite | | who | against | them | all | three | would fight |
4152 | ob | man | mir | vierzec | tage | bite | | if | one | me | forty | days | time would grant |
| der | rede | giengen | sî | dô | nâch | | the | proposal | accepted | they | then | _ |
| wand | mir | was | gewesen | ze | gâch | | for | (I) | had | been | too | quick |
4155 | man | liez | mich | ir | niht | wandel | hân | | one | left | me | (in) it | nothing | (a) change | have |
| und | en- | -wart | ouch | des | niht | erlân | | and | _ | was | also | (in) this | nothing | spared |
| ich- | -n | schüef | in | rehte | sicherheit | | I | _ | would provide | them | proper | surety |
4158 | daz | ich | der | rede | wære | gereit | | that | I | (for) my | proposal | was | prepared |
| als | ich | dâ | hete | gesprochen | | as | I | there | had | stated |
| daz | ich | in | sehs | wochen | | that | I | in | six | weeks |
4161 | mich | mit | kampfe | lôste | | myself | by | combat | would redeem |
| die | zwêne | der | ich | mich | trôste | | the | two | (on) whom | I | myself | placed my hope |
| die | reit | ich | suochen | in | diu | lant | | them | rode | I | seeking | through(out) | the | lands |
4164 | daz | ich | ir | dewedern | vant | | (when) that | I | (of) them | neither | found |
| dô | suocht | ich | den | künec | Artûs | | then | sought out | I | _ | King | Arthur |
| und | en- | -vant | dâ | nieman | ze | hûs | | and | _ | found | there | no one | at | court |
4167 | der | sich | ez | wolde | nemen | an | | who | _ | it | would | undertake | _ |
| sus | schiet | ich | âne | kempfen | dan | | so | left | I | without | (a) champion | from there |
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