Heinrich | diu | was | sîn | eines | klage | niht | | it | was | of him | alone | (the) lament | not |
263 | in | klageten | älliu | diu | lant | | him | lamented | all | the | lands |
| dâ | er | inne | was | erkant | | _ | he | wherein | was | known |
| und | ouch | von | vremeden | landen | | and | also | in | far off | lands |
266 | die | in | nâch | sage | erkanden | | who | of him | by | hearsay | knew |
| der | ê | diz | geriute | | the one who | before this time | this | cleared |
| und | der | ez | dannoch | biute | | and | who | it | still | farmed |
269 | daz | was | ein | vrîer | bûman | | this | was | a | free | farmer |
| der | vil | selten | ie | gewan | | who | _ | never | before | met with |
| dehein | grôz | ungemach | | any | great | hardship |
272 | daz | andern | gebûren | doch | geschach | | which | other | farmers | indeed | befell |
| die | wirs | geherret | wâren | | who | worse | lieged | were |
| und | si | die | niht | verbâren | | and | them | they | not | spared |
275 | beide | mit | stiure | und | mit | bete | | both | from | taxes | and | from | levies |
| swaz | dirre | gebûre | gerne | tete | | whatever | this | farmer | on his own | provided |
| des | dûhte | sînen | herren | genuoc | | that | considered | his | lord | sufficient |
278 | dar | zuo | er | in | übertruoc | | _ | in addition | he | him | protected |
| daz | er | deheine | arbeit | | that | he | no | oppression |
| von | vremedem | gewalte | leit | | from | outside | forces | suffered |
281 | des | en- | -was | deheiner | sîn | gelîch | | consequently | _ | was | no one | of his | equal |
| in | dem | lande | alsô | rîch | | in | the | land | so | well off |
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