Iwein | daz | sî | niender | zwein | zagen | | that | they | in no way | two | cowards |
6947 | des | tages | gelîch | gebârten | | (on) this | day | like | behaved |
| und | daz | als | ê | bewârten | | and | that | just as | earlier | demonstrated |
| daz | diu | werlt | nie | gewan | | that | the | world | never | had gained |
6950 | zwêne | strîtiger | man | | two | more eager | knights |
| nâch | werltlîchem | lône | | for | worldly | reward |
| des | truogen- | -s | ouch | die | krône | | therefore | bore | they | also | the | crown |
6953 | rîterlîcher | êren | | (of) knightly | honor |
| die | ietweder | wolde | mêren | | which | both of them | wanted | to increase |
| mit | dem | andern | an | dem | tage | | on | the | other | on | (this) | day |
6956 | daz | ich | ez | gote | tiure | clage | | (so) that | I | it | (to) God | greatly | lament |
| daz | die | besten | gesellen | | that | the | best | comrades |
| ein | ander | kempfen | wellen | | one | another | to fight | want |
6959 | die | iender | lebeten | bî | der | zît | | who | ever | lived | at | (this) | time |
| sweder | nû | tôt | gelît | | (if) either | now | dead | lay |
| von | des | anderen | hant | | at | the | other's | hands |
6962 | und | im | dâ | nâch | wirt | erkant | | and | (to) him | _ | afterwards | became | know |
| wen | er | hât | erslagen | | whom | he | had | slain |
| daz | wirt | sîn | êwigez | clagen | | this | would be | his | eternal | lament |
6965 | möhten | sî | nû | beide | gesigen | | (if) might | they | now | both | be victorious |
| od | beide | sigelôs | geligen | | or | both | without victory | lay |
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