Iwein | baz | geselle | dan | herre | | more | (a) companion | than | lord |
889 | er | saz | zuo | in | dâ | nider | | he | sat | with | them | _ | down |
| diu | künegin | saget | im | her | wider | | the | queen | repeated | (to) him | here | _ |
| Kâlogrenandes | swære | | Kalogrenant's | misfortune |
892 | und | älliu | disiu | mære | | and | all (of) | this | story |
| nû | hete | der | künec | die | gewonheit | | now | had | the | king | the | custom |
| daz | er | nimmer | deheinen | eit | | that | he | never | any | oath |
895 | bî | sînes | vater | sêle | swuor | | upon | his | father's | soul | swore |
| wan | des | er | benamen | volvuor | | except | it | he | exactly | fulfilled |
| Uterpandragôn | was | er | genant | | Uterpandragon | was | he | called |
898 | bî | im | swuor | er | des | zehant | | on | him | swore | he | this | immediately |
| daz | hiez | er | über | al | sagen | | this | commanded | he | _ | everywhere | to proclaim |
| daz | er | in | vierzehen | tagen | | that | he | in | fourteen | days |
901 | und | rehte | an | sant | Jôhannes | naht | | and | precisely | an | Saint | John's | Eve |
| mit | aller | sîner | maht | | with | all | his | retinue |
| zuo | dem | brunnen | wolde | komen | | to | the | fountain | would | come |
904 | dô | sî | daz | heten | vernomen | | when | they | this | had | heard |
| daz | dûhte | si | rîterlich | und | guot | | this | considered | they | knightly | and | good |
| wan | dar | stuont | ir | aller | muot | | for | there | was directed | (of) their | all | attention |
907 | ich- | -n | weiz | wem | liebe | dr- | -an | geschach | | I | not | do know | (to) whom | joy | _ | from this | happened |
| ez | was | dem | hern | Îwein | ungemach | | it | was | (to) _ | Sir | Iwein | vexing |
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