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T-gudsfreden-R11read-v1 — Lagerlöf, «Gudsfreden», Ingmar Ingmarsson's entrance — arm P2, the reading edition

Source. As T-gudsfreden-R11crib-v1: «Gudsfreden», Osynliga länkar (1894), Project Runeberg runeberg.org/osynliga/07.html, paragraphs 5–8, 276 Swedish words.

Regime. R11 v1.0. Purpose P2, the reading edition, frozen with P1 before the source was read for translation.

Matched pair. T-gudsfreden-R11crib-v1, same unit, same regime, same session. This arm was written second. R11 §6: the two arms are not independent renderings, the carryover is a known confound of this regime, and no similarity figure between them is reported as evidence.

Contamination: suspected — UNMEASURED. Identical basis to the P1 artifact, including the two sibling gate fires at 17 and 16 tokens that led to this work being chosen. See that page; it is not restated here.

The translation — P2, the reading edition

Just as she sat there in her misery, in walked the very person she dreaded most of all. It was Ingmar Ingmarsson himself, the master of the farm. He had been down at the bath-house, no doubt, seeing that the stove was heating properly, and now he had come to look at the whisks. He was an old man, Ingmar Ingmarsson, and he loved old things. And it was exactly because people were giving up the steam bath and the beating with birch that he insisted it should be kept up on his own farm, and kept up properly.

He went about in an old sheepskin coat, with leather breeches and heavy tarred boots. He was dirty and unshaven and slow in his ways, and he came in so quietly that a stranger might have taken him for a beggar. He had much the same face and much the same ugliness as his wife, for the two were of one blood, and the girl had been taught from her cradle to hold anyone with that look in holy awe. It was a great thing merely to be born an Ingmarsson, of the family that had always stood first in the valley; but the greatest thing a man could be was to be Ingmar Ingmarsson himself, the richest and the shrewdest and the most powerful in the whole parish.

Ingmar Ingmarsson came over to the girl, stooped for one of the finished whisks and swung it through the air. The twigs flew apart at once — one landed on the Christmas table and another in the great curtained bed.

"Well now, my lass," said old Ingmar, laughing, "is that the sort of whisk you think we bathe with in this house? Or are you as tender about your skin as all that?"

Translator's log — P2

Written as the draft was written and frozen with it. Purpose codes per R11 §5.

Whole-text stance decisions

Site decisions

1. självaste → "the very person she dreaded most" (the intensifier moved off the name and into the clause) + "himself". P1 glossed it; here it is dissolved into the sentence. A — P2.2.
2. badstugan → "the bath-house" first, then "the steam bath" at its second occurrence. The second mention does the work P1's bracket did: the reader learns what the building is from the phrase that names its use. A — P2.2, P2.5. (This is the scaffold handling the project catalogues under cultural-mediation, not the gloss handling.)
3. Säkert hade han varit… → "He had been down at the bath-house, no doubt, …". The hedge is kept but moved to a parenthetical position where an English reader will not trip on it. A — P2.3.
4. björkris → "the beating with birch". No gloss; "beating" supplies the instrument. A — P2.2.
5. Han var gammal, Ingmar Ingmarsson, och han tyckte om det, som var gammalt. → "He was an old man, Ingmar Ingmarsson, and he loved old things." The apposition is kept because English has it; the relative clause is dissolved to "old things". A — P2.3.
6. becksömsskor → "heavy tarred boots". The pitched thread becomes "tarred", which is not what becksöm names but is what the boots look and smell like. A — P2.2. (substitute, and it loses the referent; recorded.)
7. sävlig i sättet → "slow in his ways". Same choice as P1, made again and independently of the clause set. N.
8. de voro släkt med varandra → "the two were of one blood". P1 kept the Swedish's vagueness; here the vagueness would read as evasion. X — P2.6 bore, since "who exactly are these two to each other" is a thing the reader must be able to follow — and it was not followed, because the source does not say and inventing "cousins" would state what Lagerlöf withheld. "Of one blood" is the compromise: it reads as an answer and commits to nothing.
9. tösen / flickan / du tös / du flicka → "the girl" / "the girl" / "my lass" / (dropped). The final vocative is dropped: English takes two vocatives in one short speech as fussy. A — P2.3.
10. hade av ålder lärt → "had been taught from her cradle". The Swedish archaism is replaced by an English idiom of the same age-old sense. A — P2.3.
11. Ingemarernas gamla släkt → "born an Ingmarsson, of the family that…"; hos Ingemarerna → "in this house". The clan name is carried by the patronymic the reader has already met four times, and the final joke's hos Ingemarerna is domesticated to "in this house", which loses the clan and keeps the swagger. A — P2.2, P2.5.
12. bygden → "the valley". P1 flattened it to "the district" and recorded the flattening; here it is replaced by an English landscape word that is concrete and is not what bygd means. A — P2.4.
13. kyrksocken → "the whole parish". The kyrk- half is dropped: English "parish" is already ecclesiastical. A — P2.2.
14. himmelssängen → "the great curtained bed". A — P2.2.
15. julbordet → "the Christmas table". Same as P1. N.
16. gubben Ingmar → "old Ingmar". Same as P1. N.
17. klokast → "the shrewdest". P1 has "the cleverest". Klok is practical good sense; both English words are partial. N — no clause bore; the two arms diverged here for no purpose-borne reason, and that is recorded rather than tidied.
18. rädd om skinnet → "as tender about your skin as all that". Keeps both readings, as P1 does, by a different route. A — P2.3.
19. ty, twice → "for" once, and the second occurrence dissolved into "It was a great thing merely to be…". A — P2.3.
20. The dash in paragraph 3 — "The twigs flew apart at once — one landed…". Swedish coordinates with och; English gets a dash, which is a spoken-rhythm mark. A — P2.3.

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