Sēo ealde carte liþ ymbcerred, and hire bānena cyning misrǣdþ forþ tō rīdenne, ābiden betwēonan feldum hefigum mid gæres gærs. Se ecg, hwīlum scearp tō āceorfanne þæt þe āspended is, hangþ īdel æt ecge forgietenes orceardes. On ānre glōfhanda wunaþ cynehelm, āblācod, gedrēfed, ac nǣfre āsided. Se orierd hīnt morgen, and þēah sind þā sceadwa lange, stīþe, and wiþsacaþ forlætunge. Hēr is se lyft cōl and þicce, stenc ealdes rēgnes clifiende on flætum ēastānum and on þām nīþerum bōgum weliges, stōwum þǣr se forþgewitena gaderaþ and ne styrþ.
Tūn is be norþfenum þǣr þā hrōfas mid sclāte sind geþecode, ān ofer ōþerne gelegd mid handum þe nū gewitene sind. Gehwylcne morgen inwealcaþ se mist of þām mōre, and forswelgþ þā lanan on stilnesse. Se grund wunaþ wǣt ealle tīd, and fēdþ mēos þe ymb fēt heafodstāna windaþ, stāna þe naman beraþ of gearhundum āwerede, naman gesprecene ānlīce of winde and of hwīlum ciricbelle. Innan þām cotum restaþ īsenne cytelas ofer ofnum, heora andwlite gemearcod of gearum wintra fȳra. Hīe sind strange, unābigendlīce, þære cynne crocca þe of mēder tō dehter gǣþ, and āworp wiþsacaþ.
On sumum dagum þryccaþ þā wolcnu swā nīþerlīce þæt hīe weorþaþ hrōf, heora wambas gesmēade swā of sōte. Hyrdas on þām mōre gemunaþ tīda þonne stormas of ēaste cōmon, and ēowd tō scylde drifon under þām ealdum standendum stānum, lāfum þe heora dīegelnesse healdaþ ēac þonne se rēgn ābītt. Þā wegas betwēonan tūnum, þā ealdan Rōmaniscan strǣta, sind geecgode mid smālum stānum þe unendende fōtlæstas ādwæscodon, heora spell gedīefed under hefignesse gēara. Þis is land þe his lāf nēah healdþ, nā of āre, ac for þām þe nān mann ne cēas hīe āweg tō clǣnsienne.
On hordernum þæs hēahsetles gaderaþ forgietene lāf dūst: helm of cempan lange dēadum, candelstæf mid gemoltenum weaxe þe ne biþ āscrapod clǣne, and fellen hacel þe hwīlum hefignesse þēnunge bær ac nū ānlīce moþþan healdþ. Þās þing sind gehealdene būtan sunnan lēohte, on hyrnum þe þegnas forþgāþ būtan lōcunge. Ēac on þām feldum hrīnþ se sulh hwīlum ār þǣr eald sulhshare tōbærst and under þǣre eorþan lǣfed wæs, nū ūp ādolfen ānlīce tō āsidenne eft, his brȳc ungewiss. Sēo ilce yldung āblent gemǣre betwēonan þeawum and gewunan, swā giftungas gȳt swēgaþ mid sangum þe fēawe þā mǣnunge gemunaþ, and se hlāf biþ bacen on ofnum þe of fȳrum ōþerra tīda swearte sind.
Mann, þe tō swelcum wedere āwæcþ, mæg gān niþer tō þām ēarīme æt dægrēde and flætne stān ofer þæt andwlite sceotan, and hlystan þæs swēges, ānlīce tō ætīewenne þæt se dæg nīwe is. Hē mæg þone cytel of þām heorþe niman and glencan, and gemunan þæt handa wendaþ, ac sume þing man sceall forlǣtan tō wyrcenne rūm þām þe nīehst is. Wyrþe is tō gaderienne þā ealdan ǣrendgewritu þe on tēage bēodes gehealdene sind, and rǣdan hīe hlūde āne endemeste tīd ǣr man hīe þām fȳre āgiefþ. Hwīlum hīe magon swīgende þanc bēodan þām helme, þām candelstæfe, oþþe þām geswencan ealdan hacele, and siþþan fram þām horderne wendan and þæt ēagþȳrel wīde ontȳnan, and lǣtan in þone lēoht þe þǣr is.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Dæg līþra enda and stilles mōdes, lǣt þā ealdan cynehelme endes restan.