Chamberlain Diary Entries
One
"Oft wys Rauru, kyng of kene blade, weyve his werk real in faver of the hunte."
"Ond oft queynte Sonia, quene of kene insight, seke out him and repaire this kyng to kyngly besynesse."
"In hir sapience semes she divin, that she cunne him ever finde and for hes folly semes him the mor humain."
"Ond the kyng? O, he laughe. Nat him hir equal for hir wit, he kunne. Ond the quen, she laughe to, als even she scolden."
Two
"The kyng was late y-come this aven, so maked the quene to sharen tales of hir lond, of shirines al grene yglouen."
"Of erli daies sinnes Hyrules funding have diverse monstres hir reaume biseged ond assayllede."
"Uncesinge in striffe, thei broughte to despeir folkes lyfen. Kyng ond quen ysete thamselue to bringen scurge to ende."
"With might of light ond pouere, driven abak ybeen, ond the roial couple made thes shirines to selen hem awei."
"Thes holi selen ben yclept Shirines of Light."
"Gret kyng, grete quen, y thank ye. Ye foughte whan y wer maiden-child, that y kude pes toknouen."
Three
"Queynte Mineru, the kynges elder suster, falles so dep in hir bokes swich that she oft foryetes to eten."
"In min wieried wei don y what much y con, but y fer haven that it ben litel avail."
"Of late treteth she of 'constructes,' thinges did she make with hir hondes as vessel for spirit whan bodi-lich failen."
"So, seyde she, micht she liven longe, in spiret yhused within this 'construct.'"
"Though Mineru ne semes to holden ani deceyte... Bi my feith, y kan nat als trouthe thes wordes bileven."
Four
"Ful fyn is the weder this morn, ond have y audience with theos princes seyd ben kin bi fer distaunt yeres to quene Sonia."
"Bi gras has she been given a name most swete, of Zelda she ben yclept."
"In certain folk stered suspecioun, for straunge wer hir garnementes ond sodein wer her aparaunce."
"Yet wolde hir contenonce ond bering maked proof of hir right blod and bond to quene Sonia."
"Als be Zelda to remainen for a wile with us, y wil mi-self als hochmayde offre ekein hir servis."
Five
"Princesse Zelda recent comes to sen Mineru, the kynges elder suster. I com eck, for hir to seruen."
"Todai cam hit ipassen that Mineru sheued to Zelda construct althergrettest y hav ysen. "
"Zelda, she much desired on hit to riden, ond ne conne nat y seien coust hir stoppen. Though I dyde protesten. Loudli. "
"Neuer the lesse she made to sitten heighe upon the constructes sculdres ond to riden like an hors, al ful of grace. "
"Min lausion, so graunt alredy, dyde grouen al the mor."
Six
"Rauru, Hyrules kyng. Sonia, hir quen. His elder suster, Mineru. Ond eek princesse Zelda."
"Al whom y served, ond loved. Al whom thurghgon. Alon kerv y thes wordes upon this stan."
"This stan, ond al thritene, serven als roial families recorde, min werk final, ful-wroht for al age."
"Mani the mark made bi thes much biloved peples—som eth-sene, som unsene."
"Whan y make remembraunce of hir markes, fele y flaume of hope, though ful small, within mi."
"Hit be als though thes markes som graunt design describen."
"I ne con nat met princesse Zelda hir lov for hir londe. What mor than, ask y, can y do for Hyrules peples."
"Let min lyf lede mi fro hennes-forth an answere ful-worthi to this questioun."
Seven
"Facioun nou favereth garnementes adourned with muscheron patrons, ond fer ond wid beon thei wern."
"This tast for mucheron com of the casteles seamestre, who sogte to seuen clethes for princesse Zelda to plesen. "
"This facioun, Zelda telled to the seamestre, waere in hir treu hom wel loved."
"In hir time werd everichon patrons of bright hewes, in the shap of mucheron."
"Anou our hende seamestre set herte on thes patrons copien, which sele to mani happi persoune."
"Y seche after som for min one but ne coude nat an on yfinden."
Eight
"Of late have y herd it told a straunge ladi walkes around the castel in derk of night."
"She ond princesse Zelda semes als twinnes two, but this on nadda ne light in hir eien—mor als a ded thing than not."
"Whan she is asked about thes walkes, princesse Zelda of that ben no-thing remembren."
"What monstre, or spirit of derknesse, be this visioun? So afeard y am of min imagenninges that y con nat slepen."
Nine
"Sith hire founding has Hyrule swich hardshippe ysene, but that is onli smale moment of time."
"Mineru, the kynges elder suster, seyes of this kyngdom that hit ne mot nat awaren aye be ycaccht, nat evenforth fer futur."
"Princesse Zelda tells hire that this futur be wrat alredi, that a champioun bith from the skie comen."
"Bitwene the two, thei imaked to finden a wei this champioun in that distaunt time to helpen."
"Her min treuthe, sogte thei to up-reisen the Temple of Time, into the skie to warden hit onyenes ivil."
"Al dyden so in fer distaunt dai, our kingdom mighte be safed."
"In min herte y woot y helpen mot, ond y asked of Mineru, canst yow devyse the menes to upreisen in the skie thaes stane."
"Min wordes iseie nat enow, but thei thaes memorie safen, of the roial familie, heigh in the skie for that future time."
Ten
"So swete the song of kyng Rauru, ond so grete the beaute of his susteres daunce, that wer min eies ond eres captif."
"Ond so hende quen Sonias gasen on us alle, so felt y min herte als captif fallen."
"Seruantes lyf, tho moche laboursum, han moche jolitee as welle. Longe be the lyf of the roial familie thaere y love so."
Eleven
"Sonia, quen to Hyrules kyng, bi birthe Hylian preesterresse, hirself yborn of londe, nat of skie aboven."
"Speken she with open herte, eornest to alle, euen even to the Zonais kyng."
"This kyng ythinke it gode aventure so to lerne of the londes folke. To sen his hed ybent to listenen is swich plesaunce."