Erec | nû | sehet | ob | ez | müge | sîn | | now | consider | whether | it | possible | might be |
512 | und | tuot- | -z | ûf | daz | gedinge | | and | do | it | on | the | condition |
| ob | mir | alsô | gelinge | | that if | for me | thus | (it) happens |
| daz | mir | der | sige | belîbe | | that | to me | the | victory | remains |
515 | sô | nim | ich | si | ze | wîbe | | so | shall take | I | her | as | (my) wife |
| dar | umbe | durfet | ir- | -z | niht | lân | | _ | therefore | should | you | it | not | reject |
| si | en- | -hât | an | mir | niht | missetân | | she | _ | (would) find | in | me | nothing | failing |
518 | ez | mac | wol | mit | êren | sîn | | it | may | certainly | with | honor | happen |
| ich | künde | iu | den | vater | mîn | | I | shall tell | you | (about) | father | my |
| der | ist | der | künec | Lac | genant | | he | is | _ | King | Lac | called |
521 | beide | liute | unde | lant | | both | (his) people | and | land |
| lîp | und | allez | daz | ich | hân | | myself | and | everything | that | I | have |
| mache | ich | ir | undertân | | would make | I | to her | subject |
524 | daz | si | des | muoz | walten | | that | she | (over) them | will | rule |
| dô | begunden | dem | alten | | then | began | (for) the | old man |
| von | jâmer | vil | tougen | | with | grief | very | hidden |
527 | truoben | diu | ougen | | to grow dim | (his) | eyes |
| weinens | sîn | herze | wart | gemant | | to tears | his | heart | was | moved |
| mit | dirre | rede | sâ | zehant | | with | these | words | _ | at once |
530 | daz | er | kûme | vür | brâhte | | that | he | scarcely | _ | (could) utter |
| die | rede | der | er | gedâhte | | the | words | which | he | thought |
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