Ān rīdere færþ ofer blācne grund, and lǣt his hors betwēonan twām miclum torrum, þā hwīle þe sēo ǣreste gebicnung morgenes ofer þone orierd cymþ. On his handa healdþ hē blōstme mid manegum blædum, geworht swīþe swā þā þe man lǣfþ tō mearcienne weg gesceades and nīwra anginna. Sēo gesihþ is stræc and stillu, and þēah nis nāht gefroren. Se lyft is full þǣre stilnesse þe cymþ ǣr þām þe þæt nīehste onginnþ. Þā torras, swā swā stānas æt geate wendunge, ymbfōþ þā tīd on þǣre ān spell geendaþ, þæt ōþer mæge bēon getogen. Under þæs horses fōtum is giestrandæges land āfeormod, swā se nihtlica forst oþþe wintres lætsnāw hæbbe ālc mearc bewrigen, and gearwod tō nīwum printe æt dægrēde.
Spell and gemynd gaderiaþ on þissum ǣrestum tīdum. On þām sagum norþerlanda bringþ se ǣresta dæg æfter langum wintra wāh þe þā feldas and þā hegas ādlēogaþ, and macaþ þā cūþan worulde fremde and opene tō nīwum rǣdum. Hyrdas gāþ ūt, and findaþ hegasa and fōtlastas bewrigene under drīfum, and brūcaþ þisse tīde tō settanne nīwe gemǣru, and lǣdaþ þæt eowd tō stōwum þe ǣr þūhton ungefēre. On þǣre ealdan Wendelsǣ grētton menn þā ǣrestan almondblōstman and lilian swā tācn edcierres, þæt sēo hēofung is dǣd þe wīcþ tō edniwunge. Þās blōstman, hnesce and þēah þurhwunigende, mearciaþ ǣgþer ge byrgenna ge cradolan, ān blōstm geoffrod æt gesceade, oþþe gesett on fulluhtcuppan nīwborenes cildes.
On ālcum hīrede is se fær geārod on þeawum: līnen clāþ ontogen æt bēode, bēodclāþ gesmēþod ǣr þām ǣrestan mēle þæs dæges, þæt līchrægl ymbe lēofne man wærlīce bewunden tō byrgene. Ǣlc þissa þinga, mid handum geworht and þurh cneorissa āgifen, berþ ārfæstnesse and forlǣtennesse. On mynstrum lecgaþ munecas heora hlāf on porcellan disc æt dægrēde, and brecaþ þā stilnesse mid gebǣre swā lȳtlum and līþum swā se feall ǣrestes snāwes on ēagþȳrels hlinde. Se disc is fæt wendunge, and healdþ þæt gewunelīce, and dēþ hit hālig ānre tīde.
Se weder self dǣlþ oft on þisse wendunge. On sumum morgenum fylþ mist þā dene, and wrīhþ þæt cūþe mid þynnum, wendendum wāge. Under þissum wāge is sēo woruld ǣgþer ge behȳded ge nīwe, and giefþ þām mōde tīd tō restanne betwēonan spelldǣlum. Sēo snāwdropa is sēo ǣreste blōstm þe hire weg þurh þā heardan eorþan æt wintres ende þringþ, and bēod hire bellhīwe blōstm swā hnesce fana wendunge. Þonne sēo tīd wendþ, hīnt glæs nīwre meolce āgoten æt morgenmēle ānfealde genyhtsumesse, fēdinge æfter tīde wædla.
Tō dōnne mid þisse carte tōdæg, þū meaht gān ūt on þǣre ǣrestan dimnesse ǣr sunnan ūpgange, and lǣtan þone cōlan lyft þīnne hȳd mearcian, and clǣnsian þæt mōd tō þām þe þū scealt forlǣtan. Feald clāþ and sete hine mid care ǣr þū tō mēle sitte, oþþe ceos lȳtle blōstme tō settanne nēah þām ingange, swā stillu behāt edniwunge. Āgeot wearme meolc on cuppan, and ābīd tō drincenne hīe slāwe, and ār þone ābīd betwēonan þām þe wæs and þām þe æfter cuman sceall.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwīt.
Lucky Color: White — #FFFFFFStille þeawas clǣnsiaþ þone weg tō nīwum hīwum, and ālc anginn bītt, būtan þām wāge.