Erec | hiute | nimt | ez | ende | | today | takes | it | (an) end |
9457 | ein | teil | mit | missewende | | a | (small) measure | with | misfortune |
| daz | ich | lîhte | sol | verklagen | | that | I | easily | shall | get over |
| herre | nû | wil | ich | iu | sagen | | Sir | now | shall | I | you | tell |
9460 | wem | ich | umbe | diz | leben | | (to) whom | I | for | this | life |
| mîne | triuwe | hân | gegeben | | my | loyalty | have | given |
| ez | kam | alsô | daz | ich | gereit | | it | came about | thus | that | I | rode |
9463 | hie | vor | in | mîner | kintheit | | _ | out | in | my | youth |
| von | hinnen | in | ein | ander | lant | | from | here | into | _ | another | land |
| dâ | ich | dise | vrouwen | vant | | where | I | this | lady | found |
9466 | in | ir | muoter | gewalt | | in | her | mother's | care |
| ein | kint | wol | einlif | jâr | alt | | a | child | fully | eleven | years | old |
| von | edelem | künne | | of | noble | family |
9469 | ouch | en- | -sach | ich | grœzer | wünne | | also | _ | saw | I | greater | beauty |
| nie | an | kindes | lîbe | | never | in | (a) child's | figure |
| von | manne | noch | von | wîbe | | _ | male | or | _ | female |
9472 | als | mir | mîn | sin | dô | verjach | | as | me | my | senses | there | told |
| und | dô | si | mîn | ouge | ersach | | and | when | her | my | eyes | saw |
| sô | edel | und | sô | wünneclich | | so | noble | and | so | lovely |
9475 | dô | nam | si | mîn | herze | an | sich | | then | took | she | my | heart | for | herself |
| wan | wir | dô | beidiu | wâren | | for | we | then | both | were |
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