Erec | wie | wol | her | Keiîn | genôz | | how | well | Sir | Kei | benefited |
4724 | der | tugent | die | Êrec | hâte | | (from) the | virtue | which | Erec | had |
| vil | wunderlîchen | drâte | | most | wonderously | quickly |
| daz | sper | er | umbe | kêrte | | (his) | lanze | he | _ | turned around |
4727 | daz | er | in | niht | versêrte | | (so) that | he | him | not | would injure |
| er | wante | gegen | im | den | schaft | | he | turned | towards | him | the | shaft |
| und | stach | in | mit | selher | kraft | | and | struck | him | with | such | force |
4730 | daz | keiîn | rehte | als | ein | sac | | that | Kei | just | like | a | sack |
| under | dem | rosse | gelac | | beneath | the | horse | lay |
| nâch | sînem | rehte | | as was | his | due |
4733 | ungelîch | einem | guoten | knehte | | unlike | a | brave | knight |
| daz | ros | vuorte | Êrec | dan | | the | horse | led | Erec | away |
| Keiîn | der | schalchafte | man | | Kei | the | malicious | one |
4736 | ime | vaste | nâch | lief | | him | quickly | _ | ran after |
| lûte | er | in | ane | rief | | loudly | he | (to) him | _ | cried out |
| nein | ritter | vil | guot | | no | knight | most | brave |
4739 | durch | dînen | tugenthaften | muot | | in the name of | your | noble | spirit |
| daz | mir | daz | ros | hie | bestê | | (that) | (with) me | the | horse | here | remain |
| oder | ich | muoz | es | immer | mê | | otherwise | I | must | (of) it | ever | more |
4742 | geswachet | und | gehœnet | sîn | | dispised | and | ridiculed | be |
| jâ | en- | -ist | ez | weizgot | niht | mîn | | in truth | _ | is | it | God knows | not | mine |
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