Erec | dâ | mit | und | wir | ie | mitten | tuon | | _ | with what | (and) | we | _ | just now | are doing |
901 | ez | ist | sunder | prîs | und | âne | ruom | | it | is | without | praise | and | without | glory |
| unser | blœdez | vehten | | our | feeble | fighting |
| gezimt | niht | guoten | knehten | | does become | not | brave | warriors |
904 | manlîchen | unser | slege | gânt | niht | | manly | our | blows | are | not |
| wir | vehten | lasterlîchen | | we | are fighting | disgracefully |
| ob- | -z | iuwer | muot | niht | vervât | | if | it | your | thinking | not | does consider |
907 | vür | zageheit | sô | ist | mîn | rât | | as | cowardice | so | is | my | advice |
| daz | wir | diz | blœde | vehten | lân | | that | we | this | feeble | fighting | abandon |
| und | eine | wîle | ruowen | gân | | and | (for) a | while | rest | go |
910 | dô | was | Êrec | der | rede | vrô | | there | was | Erec | (at) the | words | pleased |
| ze | ruowe | sâzen | si | dô | | to | rest | sat down | they | there |
| ir | houbet | si | enbunden | | their | helmets | they | loosened |
913 | und | als | si | des | emphunden | | and | when | they | _ | felt |
| daz | si | geruowet | hâten | | that | they | rested | had |
| zesamene | si | dô | trâten | | _ | they | then | faced off together |
916 | und | griffen | an | ir | altez | spil | | and | took up | _ | their | old | game |
| als | ich | iu | nû | sagen | wil | | as | I | to you | now | relate | will |
| mit | guoter | kunst | mit | niuwer | kraft | | with | great | skill | with | new | strength |
919 | und | mit | alsô | gelîcher | meisterschaft | | and | with | just as | equal | mastery |
| si | spilnde | beliben | | they | playing | remained |
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