diff --git a/.playground/app/app.vue b/.playground/app/app.vue
index 8f62b8b..4ef9b10 100644
--- a/.playground/app/app.vue
+++ b/.playground/app/app.vue
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 <template>
+  <!-- A layout instance of the breadcrumbs: the catch-all page renders one
+       too, and only the first renders its trail.-->
+  <SeoBreadcrumbs />
   <NuxtPage />
 </template>
diff --git a/.playground/app/pages/[...slug].vue b/.playground/app/pages/[...slug].vue
index bf6a46f..a85a9d4 100644
--- a/.playground/app/pages/[...slug].vue
+++ b/.playground/app/pages/[...slug].vue
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 // a 404 for anything else, as a registry page would. It sets its own title
 // so the smoke can see the CMS title win, adds a layer node to the one
 // JSON-LD graph (merged by @id with the CMS's nodes) and prints a label of
-// the page's content locale.
+// the page's content locale. It also renders breadcrumbs, as a layer page
+// does, next to the instance in app.vue: only one trail renders.
 const route = useRoute()
 const answer = useSeoAnswer()
 if (answer.value?.action !== 'ok') throw createError({ statusCode: 404, statusMessage: 'Page not found', fatal: true })
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ const slug = computed(() => ([] as string[]).concat(route.params.slug ?? []).joi
 
 <template>
   <main>
+    <SeoBreadcrumbs />
     <h1>{{ slug }}</h1>
     <p class="seo-visually-hidden">{{ labels.breadcrumbs.label }}</p>
   </main>
diff --git a/app/assets/css/seo-base.css b/app/assets/css/seo-base.css
index 3ca4513..b80a7e6 100644
--- a/app/assets/css/seo-base.css
+++ b/app/assets/css/seo-base.css
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* SEO layer base styles. Only .seo-* classes, never a bare element or
    another layer's classes; values come from seo-tokens.css, and the app's
-   own CSS (loaded after the layers') wins. The breadcrumb, pagination and
-   HTML sitemap rules land with their components. */
+   own CSS (loaded after the layers') wins. Long names and titles wrap and
+   are never truncated: the full text stays in the HTML. */
 
 /* Visually hidden, still read by screen readers (the new-tab hint inside
    external links, labels of icon-only controls). */
@@ -26,3 +26,33 @@
   outline: 2px solid var(--seo-color-accent);
   outline-offset: 2px;
 }
+
+/* L1 breadcrumbs: a wrapping row, separators generated here (never read by
+   screen readers), the current page muted and bold. */
+.seo-breadcrumbs {
+  font-size: var(--seo-font-size-small);
+}
+.seo-breadcrumbs__list {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  list-style: none;
+  margin: 0 0 var(--seo-space-4);
+  padding: 0;
+}
+.seo-breadcrumbs__item {
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+}
+.seo-breadcrumbs__item + .seo-breadcrumbs__item::before {
+  content: var(--seo-breadcrumbs-separator) / '';
+  color: var(--seo-color-muted);
+  padding-inline: var(--seo-space-2);
+}
+.seo-breadcrumbs__link {
+  display: inline-block;
+  padding-block: var(--seo-space-1);
+}
+.seo-breadcrumbs__current {
+  color: var(--seo-color-muted);
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
diff --git a/app/components/Seo/Breadcrumbs.vue b/app/components/Seo/Breadcrumbs.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebae47c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/components/Seo/Breadcrumbs.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+// The visible breadcrumb trail (UI-SPEC L1, D-86): the resolve answer's
+// breadcrumbs, the same list the CMS puts in BreadcrumbList, as nav > ol
+// with server-rendered links and the current page as text. Renders nothing
+// with fewer than two items (the home page), when the page meta sets
+// seo: { breadcrumbs: false } or when the option seo.breadcrumbs is false.
+// Only the first instance rendered for a page shows its trail, so an app
+// may place one in its layout while a layer's page renders one too.
+// Separators are CSS-generated (seo-base.css), never DOM characters. Links
+// use NuxtLink's custom slot, so only the last item carries aria-current.
+import { seoClaimBreadcrumbs, seoReleaseBreadcrumbs, type SeoBreadcrumbClaim } from '../../utils/breadcrumbClaim.ts'
+import { seoSitePath } from '../../utils/sitePath.ts'
+import type { SeoBreadcrumb } from '../../utils/types.ts'
+
+const props = withDefaults(
+  defineProps<{
+    /** Overrides the resolve answer's trail. */
+    items?: SeoBreadcrumb[] | null
+    /** Overrides the breadcrumbs.label label (the nav's aria-label). */
+    label?: string
+    /** Leaves the last item (the current page) out of the visible list. */
+    hideCurrent?: boolean
+    /** The labels' locale (default: the page's content locale). */
+    locale?: string
+  }>(),
+  { items: null, label: '', hideCurrent: false, locale: '' },
+)
+
+const config = useRuntimeConfig()
+const route = useRoute()
+const answer = useSeoAnswer()
+const labels = useSeoLabels(() => props.locale)
+const claim = useState<SeoBreadcrumbClaim | null>('seo-layer:breadcrumbs', () => null)
+const id = useId() ?? 'seo-breadcrumbs'
+
+const trail = computed(() => {
+  const source = props.items ?? (answer.value?.action === 'ok' ? answer.value.breadcrumbs : null) ?? []
+  const origin = answer.value?.url
+  return (Array.isArray(source) ? source : [])
+    .filter((item) => item && typeof item.name === 'string' && item.name !== '')
+    .map((item) => ({ name: item.name, to: (typeof item.path === 'string' && item.path.startsWith('/') && !item.path.startsWith('//') ? item.path : '') || seoSitePath(item.url, origin) }))
+})
+
+const enabled = computed(() => {
+  const option = (config.public.seo as { breadcrumbs?: unknown } | undefined)?.breadcrumbs
+  const meta = (route.meta as { seo?: { breadcrumbs?: unknown } }).seo?.breadcrumbs
+  return option !== false && option !== 'false' && meta !== false
+})
+const shown = computed(() => enabled.value && trail.value.length >= 2)
+
+const owns = ref(false)
+const take = () => {
+  if (!shown.value) {
+    claim.value = seoReleaseBreadcrumbs(claim.value, id)
+    owns.value = false
+    return
+  }
+  const next = seoClaimBreadcrumbs(claim.value, route.path, id)
+  claim.value = next.state
+  owns.value = next.owns
+}
+take()
+watch([() => route.path, shown], take)
+
+const visible = computed(() => (props.hideCurrent ? trail.value.slice(0, -1) : trail.value))
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <nav v-if="owns && shown" class="seo-breadcrumbs" :aria-label="label || labels.breadcrumbs.label">
+    <ol class="seo-breadcrumbs__list">
+      <li v-for="(item, i) in visible" :key="i" class="seo-breadcrumbs__item">
+        <span v-if="!hideCurrent && i === visible.length - 1" class="seo-breadcrumbs__current" aria-current="page">{{ item.name }}</span>
+        <NuxtLink v-else-if="item.to" v-slot="link" :to="item.to" custom>
+          <a class="seo-breadcrumbs__link" :href="link.href" @click="link.navigate">{{ item.name }}</a>
+        </NuxtLink>
+        <span v-else class="seo-breadcrumbs__text">{{ item.name }}</span>
+      </li>
+    </ol>
+  </nav>
+</template>
diff --git a/app/composables/useSeoLabels.ts b/app/composables/useSeoLabels.ts
index d111d0a..522ef37 100644
--- a/app/composables/useSeoLabels.ts
+++ b/app/composables/useSeoLabels.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,19 @@
 //
 // Component props override both.
 
-import type { ComputedRef } from 'vue'
+import type { ComputedRef, MaybeRefOrGetter } from 'vue'
 import { pickLabels, type SeoLabelOverrides, type SeoLabels } from '../utils/labels.ts'
 
-export function useSeoLabels(): ComputedRef<SeoLabels> {
+/**
+ * The labels of the page's content locale, or of `locale` when given and
+ * not empty (the HTML sitemap pages know theirs from the route).
+ */
+export function useSeoLabels(locale?: MaybeRefOrGetter<string | undefined | null>): ComputedRef<SeoLabels> {
   const answer = useSeoAnswer()
   const appConfig = useAppConfig() as { seo?: { labels?: SeoLabelOverrides } }
-  return computed(() => pickLabels(answer.value?.locale, answer.value?.html_lang, appConfig.seo?.labels ?? {}))
+  return computed(() => {
+    const own = toValue(locale)
+    if (own) return pickLabels(own, '', appConfig.seo?.labels ?? {})
+    return pickLabels(answer.value?.locale, answer.value?.html_lang, appConfig.seo?.labels ?? {})
+  })
 }
diff --git a/app/utils/breadcrumbClaim.ts b/app/utils/breadcrumbClaim.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf31357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/utils/breadcrumbClaim.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// One visible breadcrumb trail per page (UI-SPEC L1): an app may place
+// <SeoBreadcrumbs> in its layout while a layer's page renders one too; the
+// first instance that renders in a request claims the page and later ones
+// render nothing. The claim is kept per path, so a client navigation hands
+// it out again (the layout instance, set up first, claims first). Pure, so
+// `node --test` drives it; names start with `seo` (app/utils is
+// auto-imported).
+
+export interface SeoBreadcrumbClaim {
+  path: string
+  id: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether instance `id` owns the trail of `path`, and the claim to keep:
+ * no claim or one for another path is taken over; the claim of this path
+ * belongs to the instance that made it.
+ */
+export function seoClaimBreadcrumbs(state: SeoBreadcrumbClaim | null | undefined, path: string, id: string): { state: SeoBreadcrumbClaim; owns: boolean } {
+  if (!state || state.path !== path) return { state: { path, id }, owns: true }
+  return { state, owns: state.id === id }
+}
+
+/** Releases the claim of `id` (an instance that stops rendering its trail). */
+export function seoReleaseBreadcrumbs(state: SeoBreadcrumbClaim | null | undefined, id: string): SeoBreadcrumbClaim | null {
+  return state && state.id === id ? null : (state ?? null)
+}
diff --git a/app/utils/sitePath.ts b/app/utils/sitePath.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7232e22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/utils/sitePath.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// Links to the site's own pages from absolute CMS URLs: a URL on the site
+// URL's origin (or on the request origin) becomes its path, so it renders
+// as a NuxtLink; another http(s) URL stays as it is, and anything else
+// (javascript:, data: …) becomes '' so it is never rendered as a link.
+// Pure; names start with `seo` because app/utils is auto-imported.
+
+export function seoSitePath(url: string, ...origins: Array<string | undefined | null>): string {
+  if (typeof url !== 'string' || url === '') return ''
+  if (url.startsWith('/') && !url.startsWith('//')) return url
+  let parsed: URL
+  try {
+    parsed = new URL(url)
+  } catch {
+    return ''
+  }
+  if (parsed.protocol !== 'https:' && parsed.protocol !== 'http:') return ''
+  for (const o of origins) {
+    if (!o) continue
+    try {
+      if (new URL(o).origin === parsed.origin) return `${parsed.pathname}${parsed.search}` || '/'
+    } catch {
+      // not a URL
+    }
+  }
+  return url
+}
diff --git a/testing/expect-seo.txt b/testing/expect-seo.txt
index 0ce997e..f977d09 100644
--- a/testing/expect-seo.txt
+++ b/testing/expect-seo.txt
@@ -84,3 +84,10 @@ noreport /stary
 # noindex route. The build matches the site answer: no drift warning.
 routereport 1 has=/ has=/plain has=/about lacks=/konto lacks=/szkic lacks=/prywatne
 log [vue-seo-layer] drift::0
+
+# L1 breadcrumbs: a layout instance (app.vue) and a page instance render
+# exactly one trail, server-rendered links, the last item as text with
+# aria-current; none on the home page (one item) or a page without a trail.
+200 /blog/lwia-grzywa count=<nav class="seo-breadcrumbs":1 contains=<a class="seo-breadcrumbs__link" href="/">Start</a> contains=<span class="seo-breadcrumbs__current" aria-current="page">Lwia grzywa</span> count=aria-current="page":1
+200 / count=seo-breadcrumbs:0
+200 /plain count=seo-breadcrumbs:0
diff --git a/tests/breadcrumbClaim.test.ts b/tests/breadcrumbClaim.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f769b7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/breadcrumbClaim.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import test from 'node:test'
+import { seoClaimBreadcrumbs, seoReleaseBreadcrumbs } from '../app/utils/breadcrumbClaim.ts'
+import { seoSitePath } from '../app/utils/sitePath.ts'
+
+test('seoClaimBreadcrumbs: the first instance of a path owns the trail (layout plus page: one trail)', () => {
+  const layout = seoClaimBreadcrumbs(null, '/blog/x', 'layout')
+  assert.equal(layout.owns, true)
+  const page = seoClaimBreadcrumbs(layout.state, '/blog/x', 'page')
+  assert.equal(page.owns, false)
+  assert.deepEqual(page.state, { path: '/blog/x', id: 'layout' })
+  assert.equal(seoClaimBreadcrumbs(page.state, '/blog/x', 'layout').owns, true, 'a re-render keeps the claim')
+})
+
+test('seoClaimBreadcrumbs: a new path hands the claim out again', () => {
+  const first = seoClaimBreadcrumbs({ path: '/a', id: 'page-a' }, '/b', 'layout')
+  assert.equal(first.owns, true)
+  assert.deepEqual(first.state, { path: '/b', id: 'layout' })
+})
+
+test('seoReleaseBreadcrumbs: only the owner releases', () => {
+  assert.equal(seoReleaseBreadcrumbs({ path: '/a', id: 'x' }, 'x'), null)
+  assert.deepEqual(seoReleaseBreadcrumbs({ path: '/a', id: 'x' }, 'y'), { path: '/a', id: 'x' })
+})
+
+test('seoSitePath: same-origin URLs become paths', () => {
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('https://example.test/blog/x?a=1', 'https://example.test'), '/blog/x?a=1')
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('https://example.test/', 'https://example.test/'), '/')
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('https://other.test/x', 'https://example.test'), 'https://other.test/x')
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('/x', undefined), '/x')
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('javascript:alert(1)', 'https://example.test'), '')
+  assert.equal(seoSitePath('not a url', 'https://example.test'), '')
+})