Erec | und | sol | den | lîp | verlorn | hân | | (if) | should | (his) | life | lost | have |
6844 | der | beste | ritter | der | darf | leben | | the | best | knight | who | _ | alive |
| im | en- | -welle | got | genâde | geben | | him | _ | (unless) may | God | (His) favor | grant |
| wirt | ez | dem | lantvolke | kunt | | (if) becomes | it | (to) the | people | known |
6847 | si | ermürdent | in | zestunt | | they | will murder | him | immediately |
| ouwê | möhte | ich | im | vor | sîn | | alas | could | I | him | _ | be before |
| daz | würde | mînem | vriunde | schîn | | that | would | my | friendship | show |
6850 | doch | wirt | ez | versuochet | | yet | will | it | be attempted |
| ob | es | got | geruochet | | if | it | God | wills |
| nû | wâfente | er | sich | drâte | | now | armed | he | himself | quickly |
6853 | und | swaz | er | ritter | hâte | | and | whatever | he | (on) knights | had |
| nû | wart | ir | wol | in | der | zal | | now | was | (of) them | indeed | in | _ | number |
| drîzec | ritter | über | al | | thirty | knights | in | all |
6856 | diu | ros | brâhte | man | in | dô | | the | horses | brought | one | (to) them | there |
| zwîvelhaft | und | unvrô | | anxious | and | grieving |
| sô | kêrte | der | künec | balde | | so | turned | the | king | quickly |
6859 | engegen | deme | walde | | towards | the | forest |
| daz | er | dem | ellenden | man | | (so) that | he | the | stranger | _ |
| ûz | dem | lande | hulfe | dan | | out (of) | the | land | might help | from there |
6862 | nû | gerieten | si | beide | einen | wec | | now | chose (by chance) | they | both | a | way |
| an | dirre | sîten | Êrec | | on | one | end | Erec |
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