Erec | sîns | erbes | verstôzen | | of his | inheritance | robbed |
405 | von | sînen | übergenôzen | | by | _ | stronger peers |
| in | en- | -hete | dehein | sîn | bôsheit | | him | _ | had | none | of his own | wrong doing |
| in | dise | armuot | geleit | | to | this | poverty | brought |
408 | ez | was | von | urliuge | komen | | it | was | by | (a) feud | caused |
| im | hete | diu | überkraft | genomen | | from him | had | _ | superior strength | taken |
| allez | daz | er | ie | gewan | | all | that | he | earlier | had gained |
411 | sô | vil | en- | -was | dem | rîchen | man | | so | much | _ | was | the | rich | man |
| grôzer | êren | niht | verlân | | of great | esteem | nothing | left |
| daz | er | einen | kneht | mohte | hân | | so that | he | (not even) a | retainer | could | keep |
414 | nû | truoc | er | dise | armuot | | yet | bore | he | this | poverty |
| und | diu | hûsvrouwe | guot | | and | (his) | wife | excellent |
| in | ir | alter | mit | listen | | in | their | old age | with | wisdom |
417 | und | swâ | si | der | habe | misten | | and | wherever | they | _ | material goods | lacked |
| ir | nôt | si | bedahten | | their | need | they | concealed |
| mit | zühten | swie | si | mahten | | with | propriety | as well as | they | were able |
420 | daz | man- | -s | iht | würde | gewar | | so that | one | of it | nothing | was | noticed |
| daz | ouch | ir | ie | alsô | gar | | that | also | them | ever | so | completely |
| diu | armuot | oberhant | gewan | | _ | poverty | upper hand | gained |
423 | daz | weste | lützel | ieman | | that | knew | hardly | anyone |
| dem | wirte | was | diu | arbeit | | for the | host | was | this | hardship |
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