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T-gudsfreden-R11crib-v1 — Lagerlöf, «Gudsfreden», Ingmar Ingmarsson's entrance — arm P1, the crib

Source. Selma Lagerlöf, «Gudsfreden», in Osynliga länkar (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1894), Project Runeberg runeberg.org/osynliga/07.html. Public domain. Paragraphs 5–8, 276 Swedish words.

Regime. R11 v1.0 — lead, source-only, single pass, declared purpose. Purpose P1, the crib (material/purpose-specs.md), frozen before the source was read for translation and before this locus was selected.

Matched pair. T-gudsfreden-R11read-v1 — same source unit, same regime, same session, purpose P2. This arm was written first, and per R11 §6 the pair is not two independent renderings: the second arm's translator had already rendered the unit once. The carryover is declared, not measured away, and no similarity figure between the arms is reported as evidence of anything.

Contamination: suspected — UNMEASURED, because no comparator is reachable, and the surrounding measurements are named rather than hidden.

• No English rendering of «Gudsfreden» was located in any freely reachable source. The only reachable English volume drawing on Osynliga länkar is Invisible Links, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach, 1899 (Project Gutenberg #14273); its fourteen story headings were listed by a scripted scan and «Gudsfreden» is not among them. (The story's material was later reworked by Lagerlöf into Jerusalem, 1901–02, which is a different text and not a translation of this one.)
• Two sibling gates fired before this work was chosen, and both are on the record. T-julgast-R06gate-v1 measured 17 contiguous tokens and 6 shared 12-grams against Flach's English of the same story; T-fagelfrie-R06gate-v1 measured 16 and 5. Both works were discarded under the frozen rule E-20260801g §3.4 V3. This work was then chosen partly because its gate cannot be run, and saying so is the point: note (bcd)'s S043 clause holds that an unmeasurable work is not a disqualified work, but that the declaration must say which of the two it is. This one is unmeasurable, and its two measured siblings both came back high. The prospective declaration is therefore suspected and not none.
• What this does and does not bear on. CLAUDE.md's standing constraint is that the lead is never the independent third translator where a design's validity turns on independence from a published rendering of the same work. E-20260801g's validity does not: both primaries compare the two arms to each other, and no published rendering enters any computation. A contaminated arm would still diverge from its sibling exactly where the declared purpose made it diverge. This is stated as a limit of the pair, not as a defence of it.

Priming: none. No English rendering of this story was read, because none was found.

The translation — P1, the crib

Just as she was sitting there and feeling wretched, in came the one of them all she was most afraid of. It was Ingmar Ingmarsson himself [självaste: the very man], the master. He had surely been in the bath-house [badstugan: the farm's separate bath-house, where water is thrown on a heated stove for a steam bath] to see that the stove would get hot enough, and now he wanted to see how it was going with the whisks. He was old, Ingmar Ingmarsson, and he was fond of that which was old. And just because people were beginning to leave off bathing in the bath-house and letting themselves be beaten with birch [björkris: leafy birch twigs, bound into a whisk and used on the skin in the steam], he set great store by its being done on his farm, and done properly.

Ingmar Ingmarsson went about in an old sheepskin coat and wore leather breeches and pegged boots [becksömsskor: heavy boots whose soles are sewn on with pitched thread]. He was dirty and unshaven, slow in his manner, and came in so quietly that one might just as well have taken him for a beggar. He had roughly the same features and the same ugliness as his wife, for they were kin to one another, and the girl had learned from of old to hold in holy reverence anyone who had that look. For it was much, merely to be of the old family of the Ingmars [Ingemarerna: the clan, named from the given name Ingmar that recurs in it], which had always been the foremost in the district; but the most that a person could be was to be Ingmar Ingmarsson himself, and to be the richest and the cleverest and the most powerful in a whole parish [kyrksocken: a church parish, the unit of local society].

Ingmar Ingmarsson came up to the girl, bent down after one of the finished whisks and swung it through the air. And at once the birch twigs flew apart, one landing on the Christmas table and another in the tester bed [himmelssängen: the bed with a canopy over it].

»Ho there, you lass,« said old Ingmar, and laughed, »do you think that people use whisks like these when they bathe at the Ingmars'? Or are you very careful of your skin, girl?«

Translator's log — P1

Written as the draft was written, decision by decision, and frozen before the second arm was begun. Every decision carries a purpose code: A aimed at the numbered clause(s) recorded, X a clause bore and was not followed, N no clause bore (R11 §5).

Whole-text stance decisions

Recorded first and coded like any other, per E-20260801g §9 A2. These are the decisions the site-level log format would otherwise leave implicit.

Site decisions

1. självaste → "himself [självaste: the very man]". The Swedish intensifier is stronger than English "himself" and has no one-word counterpart. A — P1.2.
2. badstugan → "the bath-house", glossed. Not a bathroom and not a sauna in the modern sense; a separate farm building. The gloss is what the story's next twenty paragraphs depend on. A — P1.4.
3. Säkert hade han varit… → "He had surely been…". Säkert is the narrator's inference, not a fact reported; "surely" keeps the hedge in the same clause position the Swedish puts it. A — P1.1, P1.6.
4. viskorna → "the whisks", held across all four occurrences. A — P1.1.
5. björkris → "birch", glossed. Ris is leafy twigs; "birch" alone is the tree, "birch twigs" the object, "a birch" the instrument of beating — English splits what Swedish holds in one word. A — P1.2.
6. Han var gammal, Ingmar Ingmarsson, och han tyckte om det, som var gammalt. → "He was old, Ingmar Ingmarsson, and he was fond of that which was old." The name in apposition after the predicate is unusual in English and is kept; "that which was old" keeps the Swedish relative clause where "old things" would dissolve it. A — P1.3.
7. becksömsskor → "pegged boots", glossed. Becksöm is the pitched-thread welt; there is no English name for the boot. A — P1.2, P1.4.
8. sävlig i sättet → "slow in his manner". Sävlig is unhurried to the point of dullness; "slow" takes the pace and loses the dullness. Recorded as a loss. N — no clause bore; this is an ordinary lexical gap.
9. de voro släkt med varandra → "they were kin to one another". Swedish släkt covers the whole range from cousin to distant relation and the text never narrows it. A — P1.6: "cousins" would have picked a reading the Swedish leaves open.
10. tösen / flickan / du tös / du flicka → "the girl" / "the girl" / "you lass" / "girl". Swedish alternates two nouns; tös is the more rustic. The alternation is kept as an alternation. A — P1.1.
11. hade av ålder lärt → "had learned from of old". Archaic in Swedish too. A — P1.1.
12. Ingemarernas gamla släkt → "the old family of the Ingmars", glossed; hos Ingemarerna → "at the Ingmars'". The name is a patronymic clan-name and the joke in the last line turns on it. A — P1.4.
13. bygden → "the district". Bygd is the settled, inhabited country as against forest — a Swedish concept English has no single word for. Recorded as a flattening. X — P1.2 bore and was not followed: a gloss here would have been the fourth in one sentence, and the sentence would have stopped being a sentence. The clause was overridden by P1.5's requirement that the English parse.
14. kyrksocken → "a whole parish", glossed. A — P1.4.
15. himmelssängen → "the tester bed", glossed. A — P1.2.
16. julbordet → "the Christmas table". Left unglossed: the compound is transparent. N.
17. gubben Ingmar → "old Ingmar". Gubbe is old man with a familiar, slightly rough affection that "old" alone does not carry. N — lexical gap; no clause bore.
18. rädd om skinnet → "careful of your skin". The Swedish idiom means protective of, and in a bath-house scene the literal skin is also live. Both readings kept. A — P1.6.
19. ty, twice → "for", twice. Archaic-literary in the Swedish and archaic-literary in English, which is the rare free match. A — P1.1.
20. man begagnar → "people use". Swedish impersonal man; English has no unmarked equivalent and "one" would have pitched the servant's-hall dialogue too high. N.

No sentence in this log is a quality claim about the rendering.