Legend of Sleepy Hollow

 Last update 2026-10-01. This will not be a shortened version. I intend to translate the whole thing.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Istori peri orifis Dormi

by Washington Irving

per Uasinton Irbin

FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

(es pas eureka inter papermulti ot Didrik Knikerboker)

        A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,

          Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;

        And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,

          Forever flushing round a summer sky.          

CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.

        Ili es pas uni lokal ot sefal dormi - 

        ot biodormi, na undula ante optik unisurbi klos;

        e ot dommaga beni in nefelo, na pas,

        e paso jurtuta in sel sesonbi.

(eks "Dommaga ot Fobergo")

1

In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.

In uni ot orifismulti stenone, na fakto orifismulti in limit ot potam Odson, a lokal stenone potam, na es pas sefal per androdireksipmulti paleo ot Olan ot mari Tapan, e plaskia ilis longane pas jurtuta beil, e deman sekur ot santa Nikolas, temkia ilis pasodia, es urban mikro ot marke o porto ot agri, antrop multine nam Urbanberdi, sed es kones komon plus e korek per nam Urbanbelone.

This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.

Nam dis es pas don - es logo a mis - intem jur paleo per ginegamemulti ot lokal bisin, akaus desir natur ot androgamemulti pro espek a dombibe intem jur marke.

Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.

Dis es inergo, benkia mi berita ne fakto dis, sed logo simple dis pro es korek e basi.

Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.

Abe longane ot urban mikro dis, inergo bi milpaso, o bale mikro, o in plas ot dis geo lebanne, na es lokal fonone tele ot Geo komple.

A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.

Uni potam mikro kuren dia ili, na abe fono lebanne tak pro kaus dormi; e fono bitritem ot kok silbi o ot ornibatalarbor es uni telenetuta fono, na stop trankuil komon.

2

I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. 

Mi memor, na temkia es jube, kas uni ot mi pro diana jo mikro es pas in grup ot arbormulti leban, na kaus skia a uni latera ot bale.

I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. 

Mi planet in ili medijur, temkia natur tuta es fonone, e es pas surpris per fono leban ot fusil ot miauto, temkia ili stop trankuil ot Juruni, e es longa plus, e es fonore per fonologoremulti nerfo.

If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.

Si mi desir probable lokal ot repos, plaskia mi inergo sekret ot Geo e fasilne ot ili, e biodormi futur resta ot bio trankuilne, mi kones plasnul kontenne bale mikro dis.

3

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country. 

Akaus repos logone ot lokal dis e karakter komonne ot antropdom, na es infan ot antropdom komen ot Olan, lokal ot arbor dis es kones longa per nam Orifis Dormi, e  andro ot tempas es apela infanandro ot orifis Dormi dia lokal bisin komple.

A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. 

Pres dormi e biodormi optikomo pende sur lokal, e komple aer iliauto.

Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. 

Antrop bitri logo, na lokal es pas logobenne per andromedisinnatur paleo ot Germani, intem jurmulti ot antropdom basi; bitri omone logo, na androsefal ot demo Indian, andrologofutur o andromedisintauma ot demofamili ili, abe pas mitin plasna, ante na lokal es eureka per androenglan Endrik Odson.

Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.

Es sekur, na lokal es stopne sub pres ot inergo ot sistemfide benne, na abe logobenne sur serebra ot antroplokal tuta, na kaus, na ilis es in biodormi stopne.

They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. 

Ilis abe komon klasmulti ot fide tauma, inergo abe biodormi e optik komonne multi, e optik temmulti stof naturne, e oto musik e fono in aer.

The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.

Bisin tuta es komple per istori lokal, plas kon siko ot korpo morta, e fide komonne intem foto forsene ot sola; stela pas e katarakta dia bale temmulti plus je lokal omone tuta ot nasion, e biodormi fob optikomo es multi per temmulti, omo plasdis es lokal filo plasuni.

4

The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. 

Prona siko forse plasuni, na dom lokal tauma dis, e optikomo es sefal ot inergo tuta ot aer, es forma ot karakter abene sefal sur ipo.

It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. 

Bitri antrop logo, na ili es siko ot androbatal ot nasion Hese ot Germani, sefal de na es priseks per glob ot fusilmagaarme intem batal abene nam intem batal Independen, e na es optik temmulti per antropagrimulti, na belo in fotone ot noktu, omo per tero ot benti.

His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. 

Plasdom ot ili es ne limit a bale, sed bitritem es tele plus a rutmulti telene, e surtuta a bisin ot domkristo telene.

Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.

Berita, antropistori berita multine ot lokal dis, na es atentif peri androoptikomo dis, kolek e sistem fakto multi peri ili, ofer, na poste korpo ot androbatal es pas ingeo in kurti ot domkristo, siko ot ili pasoante per ipo a plas ot batal noktu tuta pro eureka sefal ili, e na belo maga ot ili, per na ili pas dia orifis omo benti ot medinoktu, es akaus ili es postetem, e ili pres pro aribere a kurti ante lebansola.

5

Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Tak es istori komon ot tauma fidene dis, na don stof pro istorimulti mania in lokal na ot skia; e siko es kones a plasigni tuta ot antropagrimulti per nam Androipo abene sefal ot orifis Dormi.

6

It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time.

Es subline, na ide, peri na mi logo, es ne uni inter antropdommulti ot bale, sed es absob abene kones per antrop tuta, na dom plasna intem tem longane.

However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.

Benkia ilis es atentif, ante ilis aribe a lokal dormi dis, es sukur, na ilis respira pres ot aer benne, e komen esaribe desinsiko, abe biodormimulti e optik stof beritane.

7

I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud, for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. 

Mi logo peri plas trankuil dis kon aplaud tuta inergo, akaus abe in balemulti mikro ot Olan, na es eureka dis e na in nasion maga Iork Neo, na antrop, usa e akto multi komon esaribe fisa, intem kuren maga ot antropmulti e stof ben plus, na fakto muta stopne a lokalmulti omone ot nasion dis, pas ultra ilis abene obserba.

They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. 

Ilis es omo plas mikro ot idro sinene, na es a limit ot potam belo, plaskia mis inergo optik uni folio ot erbi umidne o globaer, na es sinene o rotat trankuil a porto mikro, na es ne stop per belo ot kuren, na pas.

Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.

Benkia anu multi pas pas, poste mi es in skia ot orifis Dormi, mi deman temdis, si mi eureka arbormulti omo e familimulti omo, na resta in lokal sekur na.

8

In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried,” in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. 

A lokal sefalne dis ot natur intem tem tele ot istori ot Amerika - na es poste trideka anu - abe pas uni andro balor ot nam Ikabod Kren, na dom - o ili logo pas - "belone" a orifis Dormi  pro kaus peri instruk infanmulti ot bisin.

He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.

Ili es pas pas antropdom ot nasion Konetikot - nasion, na don a Uni ot Amerika antrop neo pro serebra je pro silbi, e espedi antropsilbi e sefalskola multi anu tuta.

The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. 

Signifi ot nam Kren (orni kon skelo longa) es korek pro korpo ili.

He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. 

Ili es pas leban, sed pakine multitele, kon bi epaul steno, brak e skelo longa; mani, na pende tele ultra brakbesti; pod, na optikomo stofeskaba; e forma ili pende presne.

His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. 

Sefal ili es pas mikro e plan a sur kon bi oto maga, optik berdi maga e fotone, e rino longa omo orni, prona ili optikomo stof sur asi pro presen direksion ot benti.

To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.

Intem optik ili a latera ot monta mikro intem jur benti kon besti presne e agita peri ili, ni eror pas inergo ili omo karakter Nesesafag, na lebanne a Geo, o androfoborni na katarakta ot agri sereal.