Heinrich | daz | sich | got | erbarmen | | in order that | - | God | grant mercy |
255 | geruochte | über | der | sêle | heil | | might | for | his | soul's | salvation |
| gotes | hiusern | viel | daz | ander | teil | | (to) God's | houses | fell | the | _ | remained |
| alsus | tet | er | sich | abe | | thus | divested | he | himself | _ |
258 | aller | sîner | vordern | habe | | of all | his | former | possessions |
| unz | an | ein | geriute | | except | for | a | farm |
| dar | vlôch | er | die | liute | | there | fled | he | (from) | people |
261 | disiu | jæmerlîche | geschiht | | this | wretched | event |
| diu | was | sîn | eines | klage | niht | | it | was | of him | alone | (the) lament | not |
| in | klageten | älliu | diu | lant | | him | lamented | all | the | lands |
264 | dâ | er | inne | was | erkant | | _ | he | wherein | was | known |
| und | ouch | von | vremeden | landen | | and | also | in | far off | lands |
| die | in | nâch | sage | erkanden | | who | of him | by | hearsay | knew |
267 | der | ê | diz | geriute | | the one who | before this time | this | cleared |
| und | der | ez | dannoch | biute | | and | who | it | still | farmed |
| daz | was | ein | vrîer | bûman | | this | was | a | free | farmer |
270 | der | vil | selten | ie | gewan | | who | _ | never | before | met with |
| dehein | grôz | ungemach | | any | great | hardship |
| daz | andern | gebûren | doch | geschach | | which | other | farmers | indeed | befell |
273 | die | wirs | geherret | wâren | | who | worse | lieged | were |
| und | si | die | niht | verbâren | | and | them | they | not | spared |
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