Erec | wir | velschen | beide | ritters | muot | | we | are disgracing | both | knightly | spirit |
900 | dâ | mit | und | wir | ie | mitten | tuon | | _ | with what | (and) | we | _ | just now | are doing |
| ez | ist | sunder | prîs | und | âne | ruom | | it | is | without | praise | and | without | glory |
| unser | blœdez | vehten | | our | feeble | fighting |
903 | gezimt | niht | guoten | knehten | | does become | not | brave | warriors |
| manlîchen | unser | slege | gânt | niht | | manly | our | blows | are | not |
| wir | vehten | lasterlîchen | | we | are fighting | disgracefully |
906 | ob- | -z | iuwer | muot | niht | vervât | | if | it | your | thinking | not | does consider |
| vür | zageheit | sô | ist | mîn | rât | | as | cowardice | so | is | my | advice |
| daz | wir | diz | blœde | vehten | lân | | that | we | this | feeble | fighting | abandon |
909 | und | eine | wîle | ruowen | gân | | and | (for) a | while | rest | go |
| dô | was | Êrec | der | rede | vrô | | there | was | Erec | (at) the | words | pleased |
| ze | ruowe | sâzen | si | dô | | to | rest | sat down | they | there |
912 | ir | houbet | si | enbunden | | their | helmets | they | loosened |
| und | als | si | des | emphunden | | and | when | they | _ | felt |
| daz | si | geruowet | hâten | | that | they | rested | had |
915 | zesamene | si | dô | trâten | | _ | they | then | faced off together |
| 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 |
918 | mit | guoter | kunst | mit | niuwer | kraft | | with | great | skill | with | new | strength |
| und | mit | alsô | gelîcher | meisterschaft | | and | with | just as | equal | mastery |
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