Erec | ich | wil | mich | ûz | der | ahte | lân | | I | shall | myself | out of | _ | consideration | leave |
1051 | ez- | -n | solde- | -z | der | maget | niht | hân | getân | | (but) he | _ | should | that | to the | maiden | nicht | have | done |
| ich | nim | disem | hunde | ein | gæbe | phant | | I | will take | from this | dog | a | fitting | security |
| daz | ist | niuwan | sîn | hant | | which | is | nothing less than | his | hand |
1054 | immer | mêre | daz | ez | | forever | more | that | he |
| baz | vrouwen | êre | | better | ladies | honor |
| daz | en- | -hâte | doch | der | guote | | of this | _ | had | of course | the | good man |
1057 | niht | in | sînem | muote | | nothing | in | his | mind |
| daz | er | alsô | tuon | solde | | that | he | thus | do | should |
| wan | daz | er | gerne | wolde | | except | that | he | rather | wanted |
1060 | daz | getwerc | warnen | dâ | mite | | the | dwarf | to warn | _ | there with |
| daz | ez | ez | dar | nâch | vermite | | so that | he | it | _ | afterwards | avoided |
| und | liez | ez | âne | grôze | bete | | and | refrained from | it | without | much | pleading |
1063 | daz | er | im | des | niht | en- | -tete | | that | he | to him | of this | nothing | _ | do |
| doch | rach | er- | -z | ze | rehte | | but | avenged | he | him | _ | justly |
| er | hiez | ez | zwêne | knehte | | he | ordered | him | two | servants |
1066 | ûf | einen | tisch | strecken | | over | a | table | stretch |
| unde | wol | durchrecken | | and | thoroughly | thrash |
| mit | guoten | spizholzen | zwein | | with | good | switches | two |
1069 | daz | ez | ûf | sînem | rücke | schein | | so that | it | on | his | back | showed |
| dar | nâch | wol | zwelf | wochen | | _ | afterwards | (a) good | twelve | weeks |
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