Erec | dar | zuo | vreuwete | in | den | muot | | _ | in addition | pleased | them | (their) | spirits |
2152 | daz | vil | süeze | seitspil | | the | very | sweet | strings |
| und | ander | kurzwîle | vil | | and | other | pasttimes | many |
| sagen | unde | singen | | story-telling | and | singing |
2155 | und | snelleclîchen | springen | | and | quick | (springing) |
| dâ | was | aller | künste | kraft | | there | was | of all (these) | skills | an abundance |
| von | allen | ambeten | meisterschaft | | in | every | field | (a) mastery |
2158 | die | aller | besten | spilman | | the | very | best | minstrels |
| die | diu | werlt | ie | gewan | | which | the | world | ever | had |
| und | die | meister | wâren | genant | | and | who | masters | were | called |
2161 | der | was | dâ | zehant | | of them | were | there | on hand |
| driu | tûsent | unde | mêre | | three | thousand | or | more |
| ez | geschach | nie | grœzer | êre | | (there) | was (shone) | never | greater | honor |
2164 | weder | vor- | -des | noch | sît | | neither | _ | before | nor | since |
| dan | zuo | der | selben | hôchzît | | than | at | this | same | festival |
| swaz | der | diete | dar | kam | | whoever | (of) | people | there | came |
2167 | diu | guot | umbe | êre | nam | | who | goods | in return for | praise | took |
| der | en- | -tete | man | niht | eines | rât | | to them | not | did give | one | nothing | in the way of | reward |
| den | gelimph | varndez | volc | hât | | the | custom | itinerate | people | have |
2170 | swâ | man | einem | vil | gît | | that whenever | one | one | much | gives |
| und | dem | andern | niht | des | hât | er | nît | | and | the | other | nothing | because of this | has | he | envy |
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