Iwein | daz | trûren | behabte | den | strît | | _ | sorrow | won | the | contest |
4428 | und | verkêrte | sich | sô | in | kurzer | zît | | and | turned | _ | so | in (a) | short | time |
| daz | iu | daz | nieman | kan | gesagen | | (so) that | (to) you | it | no one | can | describe |
| in | ein | weinen | und | in | ein | clagen | | in(to) | _ | weeping | and | in(to) | _ | lamenting |
4431 | diu | vreude | der | man | dâ | jach | | the | joy | which | one | there | had seen |
| als | daz | her | Îwein | ersach | | when | this | Sir | Iwein | observed |
| dô | vrâgte | er | den | wirt | mære | | then | asked | he | the | host | (the) story |
4434 | waz | im | geschehen | wære | | (of) what | (to) him | happened | had |
| er | sprach | saget | mir | herre | | he | said | tell | me | Sir |
| durch | got | waz | iu | werre | | for the sake of | God | what | you | is troubling |
4437 | und | waz | dirre | wehsel | diute | | and | what | this | change | does mean |
| daz | ir | und | iuwer | liute | | that | you | and | your | people |
| sô | niuwelîchen | wâret | vrô | | so | recently | were | happy |
4440 | wie | hât | sich | daz | verkêret | sô | | how | has | itself | this | changed | so |
| dô | sprach | des | hûses | herre | | then | said | the | castle's | lord |
| waz | uns | arges | werre | | what | us | ill | afflicts |
4443 | der | mære | en- | -durfet | ir | niht | gern | | (of) the | tale | _ | need | you | nothing | request |
| iedoch | en- | -welt | ir- | -s | niht | enbern | | however | _ | will | you | (of) it | nothing | forgo |
| sô | sage | ich | iu | unser | arbeit | | then | will tell | I | you | our | troubles |
4446 | so | beswært | ez | iuch | daz | ist | mir | leit | | (if) so | saddens | it | you | that | will be | (for) me | painful |
| ez | ist | iuch | nützer | verswigen | | it | is | (from) you | better | kept (silent) |
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