Heinrich | des | tôdes | genese | wir | | through this | death | (shall be) saved | we |
854 | und | ich | verre | baz | dan | ir | | and | I | far | better | than | you |
| Dô | si | daz | kint | sâhen | | when | they | the | child | saw |
| z- | -em | tôde | sô | gâhen | | toward | _ | death | so | to hasten |
857 | und | ez | sô | wîslîchen | sprach | | and | she | so | wisely | spoke |
| unde | menschlich | reht | zebrach | | and | human | boundaries | surpassed |
| si | begunden | ahten | under | in | | they | began | to reflect | between | themselves |
860 | daz | die | wîsheit | und | den | sin | | that | the | wisdom | and | the | logic |
| niemer | erzeigen | kunde | | ever | produced | could have |
| dehein | zunge | in | kindes | munde | | no | tongue | in | a child's | mouth |
863 | si | jâhen | daz | der | heilic | geist | | they | agreed | that | the | Holy | Ghost |
| der | rede | wære | ir | volleist | | with the | words | had been | her | assistance |
| der | ouch | sant | Niklauses | phlac | | who | also | Saint | Nicholas | attended |
866 | dô | er | in | der | wagen | lac | | as | he | in | the | cradle | lay |
| und | in | die | wîsheit | lêrte | | and | him | the | wisdom | taught |
| daz | er | ze | gote | kêrte | | that | he | to | God | devoted |
869 | sîne | kintlîche | güete | | his | childlike | goodness |
| sich | bedâhte | ir | gemüete | | (then) | concluded | their | hearts |
| daz | si | nie- | -ne | wolden | | that | they | neither | _ | wanted |
872 | si | wenden | noch | en- | -solden | | her | turn away | nor | _ | should |
| daz | si | sich | hete | genomen | an | | from that which | she | upon herself | had | taken on | _ |
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