Erec | daz | würde | mînem | vriunde | schîn | | that | would | my | friendship | show |
6850 | doch | wirt | ez | versuochet | | yet | will | it | be attempted |
| ob | es | got | geruochet | | if | it | God | wills |
| nû | wâfente | er | sich | drâte | | now | armed | he | himself | quickly |
6853 | und | swaz | er | ritter | hâte | | and | whatever | he | (on) knights | had |
| nû | wart | ir | wol | in | der | zal | | now | was | (of) them | indeed | in | _ | number |
| drîzec | ritter | über | al | | thirty | knights | in | all |
6856 | diu | ros | brâhte | man | in | dô | | the | horses | brought | one | (to) them | there |
| zwîvelhaft | und | unvrô | | anxious | and | grieving |
| sô | kêrte | der | künec | balde | | so | turned | the | king | quickly |
6859 | engegen | deme | walde | | towards | the | forest |
| daz | er | dem | ellenden | man | | (so) that | he | the | stranger | _ |
| ûz | dem | lande | hulfe | dan | | out (of) | the | land | might help | from there |
6862 | nû | gerieten | si | beide | einen | wec | | now | chose (by chance) | they | both | a | way |
| an | dirre | sîten | Êrec | | on | one | end | Erec |
| unde | jenenthalp | er | | and | on the other side | he |
6865 | der | eine | hin | der | ander | her | | the | one | there | the | other | here |
| daz | si | niht | mohten | bewarn | | (so) | they | not | could | turn (off) |
| si | en- | -müesten | ein | ander | widervarn | | they | _ | had | one | another | to meet |
6868 | alsô | vuocte- | -z | diu | geschiht | | so | had ordained | it | _ | fate |
| nû | en- | -weste | ir | deweder | niht | | now | _ | knew | (of) them | neither | nothing |
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