Iwein | künec | Artûs | der | guote | | King | Arthur | the | noble (one) |
6 | der | mit | rîters | muote | | who | with (a) | knightly | spirit |
| nâch | lobe | kunde | strîten | | for | glory | could | strive |
| er | hât | bî | sînen | zîten | | he | _ | in | his | time |
9 | gelebet | alsô | schône | | lived | so | well |
| daz | er | der | êren | krône | | that | he | _ | honor's | crown |
| dô | truoc | und | noch | sîn | name | treit | | then | bore | and | still | his | name | bears |
12 | des | habent | die | wârheit | | therefore | (speak) | the | truth |
| sîne | lantliute | | his | countrymen |
| sî | jehent | er | lebe | noch | hiute | | they | claim | he | is alive | still | today |
15 | er | hât | den | lop | erworben | | he | _ | (such) | glory | achieved |
| ist | im | der | lîp | erstorben | | (even if) has | (his) | _ | body | died |
| sô | lebet | doch | iemer | sîn | name | | so | lives (on) | however | ever more | his | name |
18 | er | ist | lasterlîcher | schame | | he | is | (from) shameful | disgrace |
| iemer | vil | gar | erwert | | always | most | completely | protected |
| der | noch | nâch | sînem | site | vert | | whoever | still | in | his | manner | lives |
21 | ein | rîter | der | gelêret | was | | a | knight | who | educated | was |
| unde | ez | an | den | buochen | las | | and | it | in | (a) | book | read |
| swenne- | -r | sîne | stunde | | whenever | he | his | (time) |
24 | niht | baz | bewenden | kunde | | not | better | employ | could |
| daz | er | ouch | tihtennes | pflac | | (than) that | he | also | to writing (poetry) | undertook |
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