Gregorius | hete | bevolhen | ûf | den | sê | | had | committed | on | the | sea |
820 | und | en- | -weste | niht | wie- | -z | im | ergê | | and | _ | (she) knew | not | how | it | (for) him | would go |
| weder- | -z | genæse | oder | læge | tôt | | whether | her | would survive | or | lay | dead |
| si | was | geborn | ze | grôzer | nôt | | she | was | born | to | great | suffering |
823 | noch | en- | -was | ez | niht | gescheiden | | nor | _ | was | it | not | finished |
| mit | disen | drin | leiden | | with | these | three | sorrows |
| unmanic | tac | ende | nam | | not many | days | had passed | _ |
826 | unz | ir | bœse | mære | kam | | until | (to) her | bad | news | came |
| und | der | grœzist | ungemach | | and | the | greatest | distress |
| der | ir | z- | -ir | lebene | ie | geschach | | which | (to) her | in | her | life | ever | had happened |
829 | daz | ir | bruoder | wære | tôt | | that | her | brother | was | dead |
| der | tôt | kam | im | von | seneder | nôt | | (his) | death | came | _ | from | yearning | grief |
| dô | si | von | ir | bruoder | schiet | | when | she | from | her | brother | parted |
832 | als | in | der | wîse | beiden | riet | | as | them | the | wise (man) | both | had advised |
| nu | begunde | er | siechen | zehant | | then | began | he | to languish | immediately |
| des | twanc | in | der | minne | bant | | (to) this | forced | him | _ | love's | (pangs) |
835 | und | muose | belîben | sîner | vart | | and | (he) had | to discontinue | his | journey |
| der | er | durch | got | enein | wart | | which | he | for | God | agreed (upon) | had |
| sîn | jâmer | wart | sô | vester | | his | grief | became | so (much) | stronger |
838 | nâch | sîner | lieben | swester | | for | his | dear | sister |
| daz | er | ze | deheiner | stunde | | that | he | at | no | time |
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