Erec | dise | lieben | geste | | (with) these | dear | guests |
7058 | begunden | si | vil | verre | klagen | | began | they | very | greatly | to lament |
| und | gote | grôze | genâde | sagen | | and | (to) God | many | thanks | give |
| daz | Êrec | dannoch | lebete | | that | Erec | still | was alive |
7061 | wan | im | vil | dicke | swebete | | for | (for) him | so | often | hovered |
| sîn | lîp | in | selher | wâge | | his | life | in | such | danger |
| als | ûf | des | meres | wâge | | like | on | the | sea's | waves |
7064 | ein | schefbrüchiger | man | | a | shipwrecked | man |
| ûf | einem | brete | kæme | dan | | on | a | plank | came | from there |
| ûz | an | daz | stat | gerunnen | | (and) out | onto | _ | shore | swam |
7067 | ofte | hete | er | gewunnen | | often | had | he | received |
| ein | leben | zwîvellîchez | | a | life | anxious |
| und | disem | wol | gelîchez | | and | (to) this one | very | similar |
7070 | nû | hete | in | an | der | genâden | sant | | now | had | him | on | the | (of) grace | sands |
| ûz | kumbers | ünden | gesant | | from | (of) hardship | (the) waves | delivered |
| got | und | sîn | vrümekeit | | God | and | his | valor |
7073 | daz | er | nû | allez | sîn | leit | | (so) that | he | now | all | (of) his | suffering |
| hâte | überwunden | | had | survived |
| daz | er | ze | disen | stunden | | (so) that | he | at | this | time |
7076 | vol | vrœlîchen | saz | | quite | happily | sat (there) |
| got | helfe | im | nû | vürbaz | | God | (may) help | him | now | further |
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