Iwein | michel | unreht | unde | gewalt | | great | wrong | and | injustice |
4138 | dô | wart | mîn | leit | vil | manecvalt | | then | became | my | plight | most | boundless |
| unde | ich | armiu | verlorne | | and | I | poor | lost (one) |
| vergâhte | mich | mit | zorne | | acted precipitately | _ | in | anger |
4141 | wan | daz | ist | gar | der | sælden | slac | | for | it | is | completely | (against) | good fortune | (a) blow |
| swer | sînem | zorne | nie- | -ne | mac | | whoever | his | anger | never | _ | can |
| getwingen | er- | -n | überspreche | sich | | control | he | _ | says too much | _ |
4144 | leider | alsô | tet | ich | mich | | unfortunately | so | did | I | _ |
| ich | hân | mich | selben | verlorn | | I | have | _ | myself | doomed |
| ich | sprach | durch | mînen | zorn | | I | said | in | my | anger |
4147 | swelhe | drî | die | tiursten | man | | if any | three | (of) the | best | men |
| sich | von | dem | hove | næmen | an | | themselves | at | the | court | should undertake | _ |
| daz | sî- | -z | beredten | wider | mich | | that | they | _ | should bring action | against | me |
4150 | einen | rîter | vund | ich | | a | knight | would find | I |
| der | mit | in | allen | drin | strite | | who | against | them | all | three | would fight |
| ob | man | mir | vierzec | tage | bite | | if | one | me | forty | days | time would grant |
4153 | der | rede | giengen | sî | dô | nâch | | the | proposal | accepted | they | then | _ |
| wand | mir | was | gewesen | ze | gâch | | for | (I) | had | been | too | quick |
| man | liez | mich | ir | niht | wandel | hân | | one | left | me | (in) it | nothing | (a) change | have |
4156 | und | en- | -wart | ouch | des | niht | erlân | | and | _ | was | also | (in) this | nothing | spared |
| ich- | -n | schüef | in | rehte | sicherheit | | I | _ | would provide | them | proper | surety |
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