Hīw sitt on cealdum rūme, and healdþ on folme andefn þe hwīlum mid anwealde glēom: brȳce cynehelm, eald swā bān cyninga, hire andwlite āwered and pytted of gearum ungesewenum. Dūstmotas ymbhringaþ bufan. Þā wāhrift sind fæste atogene wiþ nīwe dægrēd, þēah se blācasta behāt dæges æt þām ecgum pryce. Sēo woruld ūtan bītt þā tīd þonne hwā þæt ēagþȳrel ontȳnþ, ac sēo hand innan wiþsacaþ þā cynehelme tō forlǣtenne, and se duruweg betwēonan forþgewitenum and tōweardum is forstoppod mid gemynde and mid yldinge.
Lange ǣr, on þām hyllum bufan ealdre ceastre, cnēowodon wyrhtan on þǣre wǣtan moldan and ātugon hwæt dēorwyrþes of þǣre eorþan, lām þicce and hefig on heora folmum, dēore cræftum and tigelwyrcum ofer land. Of þām ēarīme bǣron hīe hit on windlum. Of deorcum celarum grundon cræftigan hit niþer, and mengdon þā cornas mid ele on trēowenum bollum. Mid þissum mētton hīe hālgan, dēoflas, and ǣmtige feldas on weall and on weallclāþe. On þæs weorchūses stilnesse ymlende stenc eorþan, and se grīn þæs lāmes mearcode ālcne penselstrican, hīw þe gemunde fȳr and flōd, rīce and wræcsīþ.
Spell is of þǣre ealdan ceastre: mægden þe, þā hēo andanfulles ealdormannes nēalǣcunge wiþsōc, wæs of þām godum gewend on swīgende hlīþ. On lenctene wrīhaþ wilde gærs hīe, ac þonne rēgn cymþ and se grund of hōfum and scōum gehrēred biþ, biþ þæs hlīþes flǣsc eft ætīewed, welig, dēop, unforgietendlic. Eorþtilian, þæs spelles ungewis, ceorfaþ þone turf and feccaþ tiglas niþan, and brūcaþ heora tōl tō timbrienne heorþas and ofnas, and heora līf sind gehīwod of þām þe sēo eorþe giefþ and of þām þe hēo oftīehþ. Þǣre ceastre rēgnāþwogenan strǣta gemunaþ þis spell, þā tiglas gelegde on mynetum þe windaþ and brecaþ, and swēgaþ þā cynehelme þe gȳt on stīþre handa gegripen is.
Cēapmannes gerēafa, ūp ādolfen of abbodisse bōchūse, ātalþ wegas getogene betwēonan feorrum hæfenum and þǣre ceastre cēapstōwe, and wrīt fær þisses hīwes on wrixle wiþ sealt, wīn, and līn. Hwīlum cōm se lām gȳt wǣt, bewunden on wexedum clāþe. Hwīlum wæs hē gegrunden and on geinseglodum croccum gehealden, gearu tō edborenne bēonne on handum stānwyrhtan oþþe anlīcnesmēteres. Þæs gerēafan blæc is ādwæsced, ac hefignes cēapes ymlendaþ, tācn cēapes þe forlǣtan nolde, þēah nīwe wegas and rīcendas cōmon and ēodon. On þǣre ceastre cycenum bæcþ hlāf on ealdum lāmofnum, heora andwlite forbærnd of gearhundum brȳces, and se hǣtu and geþyld unārīmedra handa giefaþ swæcc þe elles ne mæg bēon gefunden.
Tō healdanne þæt ealde fram þām þe hit on rot āwealce, mæg mann hlāfdāh mid handum cnedan, and gefrēdan þā stīþnesse melwes and wæteres wīcan tō wærmþe. Hē mæg gān, rēgn oþþe beorhtweder, tō hlīþe and rǣdan þā wegas þǣr wilde gærs þynne weaxeþ, þǣr eorþe þurh ætīewþ. On þām weorchūse, gearwigende andwlitu tō nīwre mētunge, mæg hwā handful moldan grindan, and gemunan þæt ālc wæsc is ende and anginn. Oþþe, on þǣre stilnesse ǣr sunnan ūpgange, hē mæg ābīdan æt þām ēagþȳrele, fingras gȳt ymb eald lāc gebogene, and hine selfne ācsian hwæt hit mǣne þā dægrēd in tō lǣtenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Eorþbrūn.
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