Iwein | daz | getrôste | mir | den | sin | | that | reassured | (for) me | my | spirit |
421 | dô | ich | aber | im | nâher | kam | | when | I | however | (to) him | closer | came |
| und | ich | sîn | rehte | war | genam | | and | I | him | clearly | _ | could see |
| dô | vorht | ich | in | alsô | sêre | | then | feared | I | him | just as | much |
424 | sam | diu | tier | ode | mêre | | as | the | beasts | or | (even) more |
| sîn | menneschlîch | bilde | | his | human | form |
| was | anders | harte | wilde | | was | beyond this | quite | wild |
427 | er | was | einem | Môre | gelîch | | he | was | a | Moor | like |
| michel | unde | als | eislîch | | huge | and | also | terrible |
| daz | ez | niemen | wol | geloubet | | that | it | no one | really | would believe |
430 | zewâre | im | was | sîn | houbet | | in truth | (on) him | was | his | head |
| grœzer | dan | einem | ûre | | larger | than | an | auerochs |
| ez | hete | der | gebûre | | _ | had | the | farmer |
433 | ein | ragendez | hâr | ruozvar | | _ | projecting | hair | a soot-color |
| daz | was | im | vast | unde | gar | | this | was | (on) him | firmly | and | completely |
| verwalken | zuo | der | swarte | | matted | (down) to | (his) | skin |
436 | an | houbet | unde | an | barte | | on (his) | head | and | on (his) | beard |
| sîn | antlütze | was | wol | ellen | breit | | his | face | was | (a) good | ell | wide |
| mit | grôzen | runzen | beleit | | with | deep | wrinkles | lined |
439 | ouch | wâren | im | diu | ôren | | also | were | (his) | _ | ears |
| als | einem | walttôren | | like | a | wild man |
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