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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Igbo: Washington Irving’s tale of the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in a complete Igbo translation.

Original author: Washington Irving. Original title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Translated into Igbo from the English original.

N’ime Sleepy Hollow, ndagwurugwu dị jụụ n’akụkụ osimiri Hudson, akụkọ mmụọ na ndụ ime obodo jikọtara ọnụ. Ichabod Crane, onye nkụzi nwere agụụ nri na echiche na-agba ọsọ, chọrọ obi Katrina Van Tassel, nwa agbọghọ ga-eketa akụ nna ya, mana Brom Bones na-achọkwa ya.

Mgbe oriri gachara n’ụlọ Van Tassel, ije abalị Ichabod na-alọta n’ụlọ mere ka ya na Onye Na-agba Ịnyịnya Na-enweghị Isi zute n’okporo ụzọ. Washington Irving jiri njakịrị na egwu kpaa akụkọ a, ajụjụ banyere ihe mere ka dịkwa mgbe ọ gwụchara.

A sụgharịrị akụkọ a site n’asụsụ Bekee nke Washington Irving ji dee ya. Isi ederede ya bụ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, n’ụdị Project Gutenberg nọmba 41.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #41. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 38 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: John Quidor, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, 1858. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1994.120.