Erec | baz | si | en- | -kunde | | better | she | not | could do |
3291 | sâ | zuo | der | stunde | | immediately | at | the | time |
| kûme | eine | wîle | | hardly | (any) | time |
| niuwan | drî | mîle | | no more than | three | miles |
3294 | riten | sî | beide | | had ridden | they | both |
| ê | daz | ir | aber | leide | | before | that | to her | again | sorrow |
| von | sorgen | geschach | | because of | worry | happened |
3297 | wan | si | vor | ir | ligen | sach | | for | she | before | her | lying (in wait) | saw |
| man | saget | daz | ez | wære | | one | says | that | (there) | was |
3300 | ein | geselleschaft | under | in | | an | arrangement | among | them |
| und | daz | si | teilten | ir | gewin | | and | that | they | divided | their | plunder |
| mit | den | die | Êrec | hete | erslagen | | with | those | whom | Erec | had | slain |
3303 | der | eine | begunde- | -z | den | andern | sagen | | the | one | (would) | (it) | (to) the | others | tell |
| dise | vünve | und | jene | drî | man | | these | five | and | (the) other | three | men |
| von | den | ich | iu | vor | gesaget | han | | about | whom | I | you | _ | told before | have |
3306 | die | heten | den | walt | in | ir | phlege | | they | had | the | forest | in | their | control |
| unde | lâgen | bî | dem | wege | | and | lay (in wait) | along | the | way |
| swer | die | einen | vermite | | whoever | the | (first) one | eluded |
3309 | daz | er | den | andern | gerite | | that | he | the | other | rode into |
| Êrec | was | vür | die | drîe | komen | | Erec | had | _ | the | three | gotten past |
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