Erec | diz | was | diu | junge | ritterschaft | | these | were | the | young | knights |
1979 | nû | kâmen | dar | mit | hêrschaft | | now | came | there | in | grandeur |
| vünf | alte | künege | rîche | | five | old | kings | powerful |
| die | wâren | ouch | gelîche | | these | were | also | alike |
1982 | beide | geriten | und | gekleit | | both | mounted | and | dressed |
| si | hâten | an | sich | geleit | | they | had | _ | themselves | dressed |
| ir | alter | ein | gezæme | wât | | (for) their | age | a | proper | dress |
1985 | als | man- | -z | von | in | vernëmen | hât | | as | one | it | from | them | heard | has |
| den | besten | brûnât | den | man | vant | | the | best | burnet | which | one | found |
| über | allez | Engellant | | in | all | England |
1988 | diu | geville | wâren | grâ | | the | furs | were | gray |
| daz | nieman | anderswâ | | that | no one | anywhere |
| dehein | bezzer- | -n | mohte | hân | | any | better | _ | might | have |
1991 | ze | Riuzen | noch | ze | Pôlân | | (neither) in | Russia | nor | in | Poland |
| si | was | lanc | unde | breit | | it | was | long | and | broad |
| allenthalben | dr- | -ûf | geleit | | everywhere | _ | thereon | overlaid |
1994 | dickiu | blech | von | golde | | thick | (small) disks | of | gold |
| daz | gewürhte | als | ez | solde | | the | fabric | as | it | should (be) |
1997 | unde | alsô | spæhe | | and | so | elegant |
| daz | man | ez | volprîsen | muoz | | that | one | it | fully praise | must |
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