Erec | daz | man | im | dar | an | sæhe | | (so) that | one | _ | _ | there in | might espy (his fortune) |
8135 | er | en- | -phlac | deheiner | spæhe | | he | _ | practiced | no | supernatural arts |
| ez | was | umbe | in | sô | gewant | | it | was | with | him | so | constituted |
| im | was | der | tisch | in | der | hant | | (for) him | were | the | (table) lines | in | (his) | hand |
8138 | als | mære | enge | sô | wît | | _ | all the same whether | narrow | or | wide |
| und | swaz | ungelouben | gît | | and | whatever | superstition | (there) was |
| dâ | en- | -kêrte | er | sich | niht | an | | _ | _ | turned | he | _ | not | there to |
8141 | er | was | ein | alsô | vester | man | | he | was | a | such | resolute | man |
| swie | in | daz | volc | untrôste | | however | him | the | people | discouraged |
| daz | in | daz | niht | belôste | | that | him | that | not | did dissuade |
8144 | sîner | manlîchen | stætekeit | | (from) his | manly | constancy |
| gegen | einem | hâre | breit | | as much as | a | hair's | width |
| und | emphienc | ez | allez | vür | spot | | and | took | it | all | as | (a) joke |
8147 | er | gedâhte | die | wîle | und | mich | got | | he | thought | the | while | _ | me | God |
| wil | in | sîner | huote | hân | | will | in | His | protection | hold |
| sô | en- | -mac | mir | niht | missegân | | so | _ | can | (for) me | nothing | go wrong |
8150 | und | -wil | er | mir- | -s | niht | bîten | | and | will | he | me | (of) it | nothing | grant |
| sô | mac | ich | ze | disen | zîten | | so | might | I | at | this | time |
| alsô | mære | sterben | | _ | just as well | die |
8153 | sô | der | lîp | doch | muoz | verderben | | since | the | body | indeed | must | perish |
| er | was | eht | herzen | sorgen | vrî | | he | was | truly | (of) heart's | care | free |
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