Iwein | mit | einer | lützelen | kraft | | with | a | small | force |
3764 | und | tete | selhe | rîterschaft | | and | performed | such | knightly deeds |
| die | niemen | gevelschen | mohte | | which | no one | disparage | could |
| dô | daz | niht | langer | tohte | | when | this | no | longer | was effective |
3767 | dô | muose- | -r | ouch | entwîchen | | then | had | he | also | to retreat |
| und | vlôch | dô | werlîchen | | and | fled | then | fighting |
| gegen | einer | sîner | veste | | toward | one | (of) his | fortresses |
3770 | die | er | dâ | nâhen | weste | | which | he | _ | near by | knew (to be) |
| dâ | er | zuo | dem | hûse | vlôch | | when | he | to | the | castle | fled |
| dâ | was | der | burcberc | sô | hôch | | there | was | the | mountaintop castle | so | high |
3773 | beidiu | sô | stechel | und | sô | lanc | | both | so | steep | and | so | long |
| daz | in | sunder | sînen | danc | | that | him | against | his | will |
| her | Îwein | ergâhte | an | dem | tor | | Sir | Iwein | caught | at | the | gate |
3776 | dâ | vienc | er | in | vor | | _ | captured | he | him | before it |
| und | nam | des | sîne | sicherheit | | and | took | (at) this | his | security |
| daz | er | gevangen | wider | reit | | that | he | captured | _ | rode back |
3779 | in | der | vrouwen | gewalt | | into | the | lady's | power |
| diu | sîn | dâ | vor | sô | dicke | engalt | | who | (because of) him | _ | before | so | greatly | had suffered |
| und | ir | verwüestet | hete | ir | lant | | and | (to) whom | laid waste | had | her | land |
3782 | er | sazte | ir | gîsel | unde | pfant | | he | fixed | (to) her | hostages | and | pledges |
| daz | er | alle | sîne | schulde | | (so) that | he | all | (of) his | obligations |
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