Heinrich | gelieben | den | liuten | | ingratiate | (among) | mankind |
16 | nu | beginnet | er | iu | diuten | | now | begins | he | you | to recount |
| ein | rede | die | er | geschriben | vant | | a | story | which | he | written | found |
| dar | umbe | hât | er | sich | genant | | _ | therefore | has | he | himself | named |
19 | daz | er | sîner | arbeit | | so that | he | for his | efforts |
| die | er | dar | an | hât | geleit | | which | he | _ | thereon | had | applied |
| iht | âne | lôn | belîbe | | not | without | reward | would remain |
22 | und | swer | nâch | sînem | lîbe | | and | whoever | after | his | life |
| si | hœre | sagen | ode | lese | | it | hears | recited | or | read |
| daz | er | im | bitende | wese | | that | he | for him | pray | _ |
25 | der | sêle | heiles | hin | ze | gote | | for his | soul's | salvation | there | to | God |
| man | giht | er | sî | sîn | selbes | bote | | they | say | he who | is also | his | own | messenger |
| und | erlœse | sich | dâ | mite | | and | redeems | himself | _ | thereby |
28 | swer | vür | des | andern | schulde | bite | | whoever | for | the | other's | guilt | prays |
| Er | las | daz | selbe | mære | | he | read | the | same | tale |
| wie | ein | herre | wære | | how | a | nobleman | _ |
31 | ze | Swâben | gesezzen | | in | Swabia | lived |
| an | dem | en- | -was | vergezzen | | on | whom | not | was | forgotten |
| deheiner | der | tugent | | any | of the | virtues |
34 | die | ein | ritter | in | sîner | jugent | | which | a | knight | in | his | youth |
| ze | vollem | lobe | haben | sol | | for | full | renown | have | shall |
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