Erec | dô | diu | vrouwe | wart | geslagen | | when | the | lady | was | struck |
6551 | ir | gebærde | suln | wir | iuch | niht | verdagen | | her | actions | shall | we | (from) you | not | conceal |
| von | dem | slage | wart | si | vrô | | about | the | blow | was | she | happy |
| und | ouch | des | tages | nie | mê | wan | dô | | and | also | (on) that | day | no | more | than | then |
6554 | wâ | si | die | vreude | möhte | nemen | | (from) where | she | the | joy | could | take |
| daz | muget | ir | gerne | vernemen | | that | may want | you | with interest | to hear |
| wan | slege | tuont | selten | iemen | vrô | | for | blows | make | seldom | anyone | happy |
6557 | ir | vreude | schuof | sich | alsô | | her | joy | came about | _ | thus |
| si | wære | gerner | tôt | gewesen | | she | would have | rather | dead | been |
| tûsentstunt | dan | genesen | | a thousand times | than | alive |
6560 | und | als | si | den | slac | emphie | | and | when | she | the | blow | received |
| wan | er | von | mannes | krefte | gie | | for | it | with | (a) man's | strength | came |
| dô | hete | si | gedingen | unde | trôst | | then | had | she | hope | and | solice |
6563 | si | würde | des | lîbes | belôst | | she | would | (her) | life | lose |
| und | swaz | si | mêre | gespræche | | and | whatever | she | further | spoke |
| daz | er- | -z | mit | slegen | ræche | | that | he | it | with | blows | would punish |
6566 | unz | er | si | gar | erslüege | | until | he | her | finally | killed |
| des | wart | vil | ungevüege | | therefore | was | very | vehement |
| ir | klage | und | schrê | wider | dem | site | | her | lament | and | (she) cried out | against | (all) | propriety |
6569 | und | wânde | den | tôt | gedienen | mite | | and | thought | _ | death | to earn | thereby |
| si | stuont | von | im | vil | verre | | she | stepped | from | him | well | away |
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