Erec | si | tâten- | -z | dâ | wizzet | daz | | they | did | it | there | know | that |
2673 | sô | nie | drî | ritter | baz | | as | never | three | knights | better |
| wan | si | mit | stichen | noch | mit | slegen | | for | they | (neither) with | thrusts | nor | with | blows |
| von | stete | niemen | mohte | erwegen | | from | position | no one | could | move |
2676 | doch | müesten | si | sîn | gevangen | | yet | (if) would have | they | been | captured |
| und | wære | daz | ergangen | | (then) | would have | that | happened |
| von | der | grôzen | überkraft | | from | the | great | superiority |
2679 | diu | aller | dinge | ist | meisterschaft | | which | of all | things | is | master(y) |
| wider | si | niemen | niht | mac | | against | it | no one | nothing | can (do) |
| wan | daz | Êrec | fil | de | roi | Lac | | except | that | Erec | fil | de | roi | Lac |
2682 | schône | in | geriten | kam | | splendidly | _ | riding up | came |
| als | vriunde | an | der | nôt | gezam | | as | (for) friends | in | _ | need | is fitting |
| rehte | sam | des | windes | dôz | | just | like | the | wind's | roar |
2685 | sîn | manheit | was | alsô | grôz | | his | valor | was | so | great |
| daz | er | si | alle | drâte | | that | he | they | all | quickly |
| umbe | gekêret | hâte | | _ | turned around | had |
2688 | noch | muoste | er- | -z | enblanden | | yet (again) | had | he | _ | to exert |
| grimme | den | handen | | fiercely | (his own) | hands |
| es- | -n | wære | anders | niht | geschehen | | it | _ | would have | otherwise | not | happened |
2691 | als | diz | die | sîne | heten | ersehen | | when | this | those | if his | had | seen |
| nû | kêrten | si | wider | dâ | zehant | | now | returned | they | _ | there | immediately |
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