Sēo carte healdþ hīw on byrnan, rīdende and stille, ābīdende æt ecge rīsendes dæges. On ānre handa belȳcþ se rīdere fingras ymbe āblācode cynehelme, unwillende hīe feallan tō lǣtenne on þā eorþan betwēonan getreden gærs and forweornede wildblōstman. Bisceop cnēowlāþ, unāstyred on gebede, and behindan þǣre gesihþe ymbhangaþ sēo sunne nū under þām orierde, hire lēoht þryccende ac gȳt ne brecende þone galdor nihte. Se færeld ābītt. Nān mann spricþ, and ēac þā fanan, hwīlum hēage āhafene, hnigaþ on þām stagnan lyfte. Þis nis se rǣs enda, ac sēo unreste stilnes þæs þe wiþsacaþ tō geendodne bēonne.
Ofer sǣ and gearhund wǣron hwīlum tūnscipe ācorfene of bewrundenum wudum, geworhte þām þe of ealdum hlāfordum flugon and heora āgene worulda timbrodon. On þiccum wudufeldum rōstodon hīe bēana ofer slāwum fȳrum, and lēton þone stenc drīfan þurh hrēodþacede hūs. Spell secgaþ þæt þæt folc heora clāþ dēagode mid gifum þæs wudes, wyrttruman and rind þrūtende, and wellend wæter hrērende on geswencum īsencrofum. Clāþas and hēafodwrǣdas druncon þæt blēo, and bǣron mid him mearc stǣre þe nolde bēon ādilegode oþþe forgieten, hū oft sēo ēa wǣre oferfaren.
On stillum cycenum sitt hefig pann on þām ofne, gefylled mid bēanum þe ofer niht wǣtan, þæt heora hȳd hnescieden and heora midde þicce and rēame wurde. Se cōc hrērþ slāwe, and lōcaþ ūt þurh þæt ēagþȳrel on heofon þe wolcnu flætne þryccaþ, wolcnu þe wiþsacaþ forþ tō farenne. Se stēaw þiccaþ, deorc and welig, mēl þe swēgþ þā wīsan þe sume spell sind eft and eft gereht, and ālc rǣding dēopnesse and hefignesse tōēacþ. On þām bēode tōbirst granatæppel, and his corn sind ofer disc gestreawod, and mǣlaþ ǣgþer ge fingras ge bēodclāþas. Þæs wæstmes swæcc ymlendaþ, scearp and stīþ, and nǣfre eall his swētnes æt ānum cyrre giefþ.
On ūphyrnum and scrīnum rest felwet hætt betwēonan yrfe, āseowed mid handum þe nān mann ne geman, his fealda gehwylce gēar gesmēþode ac nǣfre geborene oþþe āworpene. Swelce þing sind gehealdene lange ofer heora tīd, gemynd gēara þonne wendung wæs mā, ac nū wunaþ ānlīce se þeaw. Storm nēalǣcþ. Se lyft þiccaþ, gestenced mid wǣtre eorþan and mid behāte rēgnes þe æt ecge þǣre tūne ābītt. Duru hræstaþ, ac se storm ne birst, and þā feldas ūte drincaþ nāht, and bīdaþ frōfre þe ne cymþ.
Þū meaht tōdæg gān ūt and þīne scōs on eorþan sēncan þe clifaþ and forlǣtan nele, and gefrēdan þone teo sumes ealdes under þīnum fōtum. Nim þone granatæppel of þām bēode, and smæcc ālc sǣd mid willan, and mearca hwæt behindan wunaþ. Bewind þē on clāþe þe þurh þīnne cynn āgifen is, and rǣd þæt āwrītene mid þīnum þūman, and hlyst þā hwīle þe þunor gaderaþ būtan forlætunge. Ontend candel on þiccum, ymbhwyrftum glæse, and lōca þā hwīle þe se līg flēat ofer mere þe nǣfre eallunga oferāgiett.
Þis is dæg tō healdanne, tō berenne þā cynehelme of rūme tō rūme, tō standenne æt þām ēagþȳrele þā hwīle þe sēo dægrēd bītt, ungenumen and ungeendod, būtan þām glæse.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
Lucky Color: Maroon — #800000Tīd gehealdan is tīd gewegen, and on wiþsace endes is sum þing ā gehealdan.