Erec | hie | beleip | daz | volc | allez | vor | | here | remained | the | people | all | before it |
8760 | âne | vrouwen | Ênîten | | except for | Lady | Enite |
| ouch | muoste | mite | rîten | | also | was allowed | _ | to ride with (them) |
| Guivreiz | der | herre | | Guivreiz | the | Lord |
8763 | ir | menige | wart | niht | merre | | of them | (the) company | was | not | greater |
| niuwan | dise | viere | | than | these | four |
| nû | kâmen | si | vil | schiere | | now | came | they | very | quickly (therein) |
8766 | daz | si | daz | begunden | ane | sehen | | (so) that | they | (of) that | began | _ | to catch sight |
| des | si | von | schulden | muosten | jehen | | (of) which | they | _ | quite rightly | had | to admit |
| ez | wære | ein | seltsæne | dinc | | it | was | a | strange | affair |
8769 | hie | was | gestalt | ein | wîter | rinc | | here | was | set up | a | wide | ring |
| von | eichînen | stecken | | of | oak | poles |
| des | wunderte | Êrecken | | (at) this | wondered | Erec |
8772 | ir | iegelîch | was | sus | bedaht | | (of) them | each | was | thus | topped |
| ein | mannes | houbet | dr- | -ûf | gestaht | | a | man's | head | _ | on it | was struck |
| wan | einer | der | was | lære | | except for | one | which | was | empty |
8775 | wâ | von | daz | wære | | _ | how | that | came about |
| dâ | hienc | ein | grôz | horn | an | | there | hung | a | large | horn | on it |
| Êrec | dô | vrâgen | began | | Erec | then | to ask | began |
8778 | wie- | -z | hier | umbe | wære | getân | | how | it | _ | concerning this | had been | done |
| dâ | wære- | -z | iu | bezzer | verlân | | there | would be | it | (for) you | better | to leave |
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