On þǣre carte arīsaþ hīw of heora cistum, earmas ūpāstreccede, ac þæs bȳmblāwendan engles clypung is gedīefed mid yldunge. Æt hlinde micelre wendunge ymlendaþ hwā, ān fōt innan, ān ūt, unwillende gȳt tō andswarienne. Sēo woruld bītt, ǣþm gehealdan on þǣre stilnesse betwēonan storme and dægrēde.
On þǣre ealdan hēahbyrig wrīhþ morgenmist hrōfas, and sett on rēnþēotum and īsenum hegum. Hē bewrihþ hrōfas ealdra gesta hūsa, þǣr hefignes ungerehtra spella niþer þrycþ on þā sclātas. Be þǣre strǣte gāþ stānceorfan ymbe heora weorc, and ceorfaþ mearca on þām lictūne, heora handa geþēawode and geþyldige. Þā mearca þe hīe ceorfaþ sind tīdlīce, ālc stæf stillu gewitnes, bīdende ēagena þe gȳt ne gecuron tō genēosienne.
Tō norþe færþ se wind ofer dene gestreawodre mid fȳrstāne, lāfum ūpspryttinga gearhundum ǣr. Þā stānas, cealde and fæste, līniaþ grund ēa þe hwīlum under his āgenum sīlte ādwīnþ. Fisceras gāþ þā rīmas, and bālaþ heora leapas ofer sculdrum, ēagan sēcende þæt slāwe wæter for styrunge. Hīe ābīdaþ æt fōte þæs brycges, and lociāþ þā slāwan wolcnu faran be þām orierde, and witon þæt sēo ēa eft cīgþ, ac nā tōdæg.
On cycenum ǣr morgenmēle rǣcþ hwā tō cytele, se bodi geswenced of gearum stēames and handlunge. His andwlite healdþ gemynd unārīmedra morgena, se gripa gesmēþod of folmum þe þǣr ymlendon, hwīlum smēagende þæs dæges nēode, hwīlum ānfealdlīce forbugende þone nīehstan stæpe. Rūghlāf rest on borde, rind bespotted mid sǣdum, his lyft geseasonod of þǣre stilnesse þe þā ǣran tīd fylþ. Se hlāf bītt, tōsniden ac unhrinen, swā his etung þǣre tīdes wyrd inseglian wolde.
On lȳtlum weorchūsum endebyrdþ leorningcniht tōl be borde: rasp, ceorfīsen, hamor, ālc mid gripa āweredum of brȳce, ecga ādwæscede of tīde. Hīe rihtaþ þā ecga būtan ofoste, fingras ymlendende on grīne þæs trēowes, wegende þæt nīehste weorc on heora mōde. Ūtan is se heofon nāþer beorht nā deorc, hēap þe bodunge wiþsacaþ, and se leorningcniht stent æt þǣre dura, and gefrēdeþ þone teo tō ongynnenne, and þēah ne dēþ nāne styrunge.
Hwǣr cnēowlāþ wyrtweard be rǣwe lambes ēare, þā leaf hnesce and þicce swā filt. Dēaw clifaþ tō þǣre wyrte, and wiþsacaþ tō feallenne, and þæs wyrtweardes handa ymbhangaþ ofer þǣre moldan, unwillende tō āstyrenne þā stilnesse þe on þām morgene hangþ. Sēo eorþe under healdþ gæres wyrttruman, gȳt stīþe on þām grunde, and þā nīwan snædas sind āsided, bīdende handa þe hīe plantian.
Gif tōdæg se andswaru feorr fēleþ, þū meaht gān betwēonan stānum on stillum tūne, and rǣdan naman āwritene mid hwæs fæstre handa. Þū meaht þone cytel glencan ǣr þū wæter wylst, oþþe þone hlāf snīþan and lǣtan his stenc þone rūm fyllan, and gemynd in lāþian. Oþþe þū meaht ealde tōl sēofan, scearpigende þæt þe dulle is, and lecgan ālc on endebyrdnesse, witende þæt sēo clypung tōmorgen eft cuman mæge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Ābīd, and sēo mǣnung findþ þē þonne þū endes gearu bist tō standenne.