Erec | dâ | was | aller | künste | kraft | | there | was | of all (these) | skills | an abundance |
2157 | von | allen | ambeten | meisterschaft | | in | every | field | (a) mastery |
| die | aller | besten | spilman | | the | very | best | minstrels |
| die | diu | werlt | ie | gewan | | which | the | world | ever | had |
2160 | und | die | meister | wâren | genant | | and | who | masters | were | called |
| der | was | dâ | zehant | | of them | were | there | on hand |
| driu | tûsent | unde | mêre | | three | thousand | or | more |
2163 | ez | geschach | nie | grœzer | êre | | (there) | was (shone) | never | greater | honor |
| weder | vor- | -des | noch | sît | | neither | _ | before | nor | since |
| dan | zuo | der | selben | hôchzît | | than | at | this | same | festival |
2166 | swaz | der | diete | dar | kam | | whoever | (of) | people | there | came |
| 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 |
2169 | den | gelimph | varndez | volc | hât | | the | custom | itinerate | people | have |
| 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 |
2172 | und | vluochet | der | hôchzît | | and | curses | the | festival |
| des | kam | dâ | niemen | in | den | strît | | in this (situation) | came | there | no one | into | _ | conflict |
| wan | si | wurden | rîche | | because | they | became | rich |
2175 | alle | gelîche | | all | equally |
| man | gap | dâ | vil | starke | | one | gave | there | very | generously |
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