Sēo ealde cynehelm rest on þǣre folme, ceald, mid dūste geblōwod, hire ord ādwæscede of tō manegum dagum þe man hīe wende, sēcende þā ecge for þǣre sprǣce hwȳ hēo hwīlum swā wel gefēoll. On þām bēode be hire ligeþ ǣrendgewrit, blæc nēah ādwæsced ac þæt wæxinsegl gȳt þicce and hefig, lāc of tīde þonne ālc ende wæs gemētt mid behāte, and ālc behāt mid nīwum dæge. Ūtan þām ēagþȳrele hīnt se orierd uneaþe morgen, mid wolcne ymbseowed. Se rīdere bītt æt þām þerscolde, and his blāce hors scræfþ þone grund, þā hwīle þe se būend þæs hūses ymlendaþ mid þæs forþgewitenan tācne tō heortan gedrēfdum.
Hwīlum, on þām middelande, oncneowon wegfarende þone dēopan wīn þæs wīngerdes moldes æfter rēgne, blēo þǣre eorþan þe gearhund gefeallenra leafa and ealdra wyrttruma genumen hæfde, and wiþsōc tō āfeormodne bēonne. On þisse eorþan hēold se wyrttruma, and wand dēopor gēar æfter gēare, oþ þæt þā wīngerdas bufan bǣron wæstm hefigran and menigfealdlicran þonne se ǣrra hærfest. On swelcum stōwum geendode nāht eallunga. Þæs wringan lāf wearþ nīehstes gēares mulc, and se endemesta wīn sang on þām tunnum be þām nīwan.
Spell secgaþ be Bysantiscum cēapmannes clāþe, þicce āwefen tō þolienne manega tīda, lange ǣr gemǣled mid sēawe granatæppla þe æt wēofode tōburston. Se clāþ wæs of handa tō handa āgifen, nǣfre āworpen, eft and eft gelæpped, and his hefignes wēox mid ǣlcere bētinge. On nīþerlīce gehlōfdum hordernum Venetie hēoldon cēapmenn bōc mid oxanblōdes hȳde gebundene, sume gearhund ealde, gefyllede mid gyltum and mid gieldum þe nǣfre eallunga ādilegode wǣron. Þēah gēar forþēodon, næron þā bōc nǣfre forbærnde, ānlīce belocene and gehealden, wiþsac tō forgietenne, and anþræc þæt se gerēafa hwīlum wǣre gedēmed.
On norþe cymþ hærfest mid heofone þe under stormwolcnum blēwaþ, and se lyft hefig mid stence īsenes þā hwīle þe leaf feallaþ ac wiþsacaþ feorr tō flēogenne, and þā wegas mættaþ and healdþ þone grund hnesce under fōtum. Þā ealdan menn swāpaþ hīe on hyrnas, nā tō clǣnsienne þone rūm ac tō healdanne þone gemynd sumeres sunnan. On cycenum bringþ se slāwa fȳr under þām soþþcytele forþ þone dēopan, weligan broþ of bānum þe ofer wucan gehealdene sind, behāt fēdinge getogen of þām þe wunaþ, nā of þām þe nīwe is. Se cōc hrērþ mid trēowenum spone þe gear brȳces gemǣldon, se gripa geglenced of unārīmedum handum, se boga āwered smēþe ac nǣfre oferseted.
Se spell þæs fēnix nis ānfeald līges and flyhtes, ac smēoces and ymlendendre ascan, se fugel wiþsacende þone endemestan spearcan, and wunigende on glēdhīwe swā lange swā hē dear. On þām scræfe is sēo cynehelm gehealdan nā for hire scīne ac for hire spelle, boren nā swā mearc rīces ac swā gemynd þæs þe hīe ǣr wæg. Mægen is on þām wiþsace tō forlǣtenne, ac se weorþ is þæt þæt ēagþȳrel belocen wunaþ, þā scytelsas hræstende þā hwīle þe windas rīsaþ, and se morgen is ā nū būtan ecge gesihþe.
Tōdæg þū meaht dūst āfeormian of ealdum bōcum þāra hrycgas on gearum ne sind tōbrocene, oþþe stēaw sēoþan of þām þe on þām hordernum wunaþ, and giefan tīd þæt swæcc of þām bānum eft cume. Þū miht geborenne clāþdǣl bētan, nā for spǣrunge ac tō healdanne his spell on þīnum handum hwīle leng, oþþe gān þǣr þā leaf þicce under þīnum fōtum sind, and gefrēdan þā hnesnesse þe on giestrandæges fealle gehealdan is.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc rēad.
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