Two-stroke internal combustion engine with internal scavenging

A method for exhaust gas recirculation in a two-stroke internal combustion engine with longitudinal scavenging, with at least one piston reciprocating in a cylinder, with at least one exhaust valve disposed in the cylinder head floor and with at least one intake slot per cylinder which can be passed by a control edge of the piston, with at least one exhaust gas recirculation conduit for the recirculation of exhaust gas into the combustion chamber and at least one exhaust gas recirculation valve for controlling the recirculated exhaust gas quantity, with the exhaust gas recirculation conduit starting out directly from the combustion chamber and the exhaust gas recirculation valve being arranged as a stroke valve which is arranged in the region of the entrance of the exhaust gas recirculation conduit into the cylinder head floor and with the exhaust gas recirculation conduit opening into the cylinder via at least one control slot controlled by the piston, with exhaust gas being taken from the combustion chamber via an exhaust gas recirculation valve during an exhaust period and being re-supplied to the combustion chamber in the next following intake period via an exhaust gas recirculation conduit, wherein the exhaust gas taken directly from the combustion chamber is recirculated directly into the cylinder via at least one intake slot, with the recirculated exhaust gas being upstream of the intake air in the region of the intake slot until the opening of the intake slot by the piston.