Erec | und | lebet | swie | si | iuch | heize | leben | | and | live | as | she | you | bids | (to) live |
1086 | saget | ir | rehte | wer | ir | sît | | tell | her | exactly | who | you | are |
| und | umbe | unseren | strît | | and | about | our | contest |
| und | wer | iuch | dar | z- | -ir | habe | gesant | | and | who | you | there | to | her | _ | sent |
1089 | alsô | bin | ich | genant | | so | am | I | called |
| Êrec | fil | de | roi | Lac | | Erec | fil | de | roi | Lac |
| ich | kum | morgen | ob | ich | mac | | I | shall come | tomorrow | if | I | can |
1092 | ich | rîte | ze | mîner | wîle | | I | shall ride | at | my | leisure |
| dar | sint | niuwan | siben | mîle | | to there | are | only | seven | miles |
| nû | gedenket | an | iuwer | sicherheit | | now | remember | _ | your | pledge |
1095 | der | ritter | dô | enwec | reit | | the | knight | then | away | rode |
| er | und | sîn | vriundîn | | he | and | his | lady-love |
| unde | daz | getwergelîn | | and | the | little dwarf |
1098 | gegen | dem | künege | Artûse | | in the direction of | _ | King | Arthur |
| nû | was | er | ze | sînem | hûse | | now | had | he | to | his | castle |
| wider | entwichen | in | daz | lant | | _ | returned | into | the | land |
1101 | daz | was | Karadigân | genant | | this | was | Karadigan | called |
| dô | der | hirz | was | gejaget | | after | the | stag | had been | hunted |
| als | iu | ê | ist | gesaget | | as | to you | before | was | told |
1104 | nû | was | ez | alsô | ergangen | | now | had | it | so | happened |
| daz | den | hirz | hete | gevangen | | that | the | stag | had | caught |
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