Erec | beide | wîp | unde | man | | either | woman | or | man |
8455 | daz | ich | in- | -s | niht | gesagen | kan | | (and) that | I | them | about it | nothing | tell | could |
| und | ich | doch | hie | gewesen | bin | | and | I | indeed | here | been | have |
| dar | an | velschent | si | mînen | sin | | _ | about this | would hold for false | they | my | intention |
8458 | nû | wânde | der | wirt | er | meinte- | -z | sô | | now | believed | the | host | he | meant | it | so |
| dâ | von | begunde | er | in | dô | | _ | therefore | began | he | him | then |
| dise | rede | wizzen | lân | | this | matter | to explain | _ |
8461 | als | ich | iu | ê | gesaget | hân | | as | I | you | before | told | have |
| rehte | zuo | der | mâze | | exactly | in | the | manner |
| als | im | ûf | der | strâze | | as | (to) him | on | the | road |
8464 | sîn | geselle | sagete | | his | companion | had told |
| und | ob | der | iht | verdagete | | and | if | he | anything | had left out |
| ze | vollen | sagete | er | im | daz | | in | full | told | he | him | that |
8467 | und | beschiet | in | des | baz | | and | explained | (to) him | it | better |
| er | sagete | der | boumgarte | | he | said | (about) the | park |
| der | wære | gevestent | harte | | it | was | fortified | strongly |
8470 | und | swie | er | wære | umbegeben | | and | how | it | was | enclosed |
| dar | in | en- | -dorfte | niemen | streben | | _ | therein | _ | dare | no one | enter |
| dem | ze | ihte | mære | | (for) whom | of | any | value |
8473 | lîp | und | êre | wære | | life | and | honor | were |
| er | sprach | dâ | wonet | inne | | he | said | _ | lives | therein |
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