Heinrich | unde | menschlich | reht | zebrach | | and | human | boundaries | surpassed |
859 | si | begunden | ahten | under | in | | they | began | to reflect | between | themselves |
| daz | die | wîsheit | und | den | sin | | that | the | wisdom | and | the | logic |
| niemer | erzeigen | kunde | | ever | produced | could have |
862 | dehein | zunge | in | kindes | munde | | no | tongue | in | a child's | mouth |
| si | jâhen | daz | der | heilic | geist | | they | agreed | that | the | Holy | Ghost |
| der | rede | wære | ir | volleist | | with the | words | had been | her | assistance |
865 | der | ouch | sant | Niklauses | phlac | | who | also | Saint | Nicholas | attended |
| dô | er | in | der | wagen | lac | | as | he | in | the | cradle | lay |
| und | in | die | wîsheit | lêrte | | and | him | the | wisdom | taught |
868 | daz | er | ze | gote | kêrte | | that | he | to | God | devoted |
| sîne | kintlîche | güete | | his | childlike | goodness |
| sich | bedâhte | ir | gemüete | | (then) | concluded | their | hearts |
871 | daz | si | nie- | -ne | wolden | | that | they | neither | _ | wanted |
| 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 | _ |
874 | der | sin | sî | ir | von | gote | komen | | the | decision | had | to her | from | God | come |
| von | jâmer | erkalte | in | der | lîp | | from | grief | became cold | _ | their | bodies |
| dô | der | meier | und | sîn | wîp | | when | the | farmer | and | his | wife |
877 | an | dem | bette | sâzen | | on | the | bed | sat |
| alsô | daz | si | vergâzen | | so | that | they | forgot |
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