Gregorius | noch | wider | got | gebüezen | | or | to | God | do penance |
171 | der | dise | rede | berihte | | who | this | story | fashioned |
| in | tiusche | getihte | | in | German | wrote down |
| daz | was | von | Ouwe | Hartman | | this | was | from | Aue | Hartmann |
174 | hie | hebent | sich | von | êrste | an | | here | begins | _ | from (the) | beginning | _ |
| diu | seltsænen | mære | | the | wondrous | tale |
| von | dem | guoten | sündære | | of | the | good | sinner |
177 | ez | ist | ein | wälhischez | lant | | (there) | is | a | French | land |
| Equitâniâ | genant | | Aquitania | called |
| und | lît | dem | mere | unverre | | and | lying | (from) the | sea | not far |
180 | des | selben | landes | herre | | (of) this | same | land | (the) lord |
| gewan | bî | sînem | wîbe | | had | by | his | wife |
| zwei | kint | diu | an | ir | lîbe | | two | children | who | in | their | appearance |
183 | niht | schœner | mohten | sîn | | not | more beautiful | could | be |
| einen | sun | und | ein | tohterlîn | | a | son | and | a | (little) daughter |
| der | kinde | muoter | erstarp | | the | children's | mother | died |
186 | dô | si | in | daz | leben | vol | erwarp | | when | she | them | _ | life | completely | had given |
| dô | diu | kint | wâren | | when | the | children | had |
| komen | ze | zehen | jâren | | reached | (their) | tenth | year |
189 | do | ergreif | den | vater | ouch | der | tôt | | then | seized | the | father | also | _ | death |
| dô | er | im | sîn | kunft | enbôt | | when | he | him | his | coming | made known |
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