Þǣre carte hīw wuniaþ gearwe æt þām þerscolde, gefangene betwēonan eorþan and heofone, mid þæs engles clypunge hangigendre ofer þǣre gesihþe swā cwide lǣfed ungefylled. Nān mann ne rīsþ, þēah sēo lāþung sweotol sīe. On þæs ymlendaþ þā lifigendan betwēonan þām prūhum, fēt screapende þæt rūhe andwlite, handa belocene ymbe gemynd. Se andswaru, swā hwæt swā hē sīe, bītt būtan rǣce. Behāt ontȳninge is gedīefed mid yldunge, swā sēo woruld self hire ǣþm healde, unwillende forþ tō farenne. Se grund under fēt fēleþ swā flor ealdes scipes, eall cearc and sceadu, swā sēo stǣr self wiþsace his feng tō līesenne.
Hwǣr, dēope on þām hātum landum, ligeþ dǣl sǣrīmes þǣr sēo sǣ ūp weorpþ līc scipa lange forgietenra. Þǣr arn ān scip hwīlum on grund, lǣfed tō rotienne on þām bræcflōde. His bord wearþ scyld þām þe of nīede flugon, folc þe frēodōm nāmon mid ādwīnenne on þone þiccet behindan þām strande. Ofer tīd timbrodon hīe lȳtle hūs of timbre gegaderodum of þām wuda and of þām forlǣtenan borde selfum. Þā weallas bǣron mearca storma and spell þāra þe on stilnesse cōmon, unwillende tō andswarienne þǣre worulde frignungum. Þās tūnscipe wǣron ungesewene ūtancymendum, heora wegas windende þurh þicce þȳfe, gescyldede mid wyrttrumum, sceadwum, and stilnesse. On ǣfenne drāf smoca heorþfȳra on þone lyft, gemenged mid stence bēana slāwe ofer glēdum gebræddra. Hēr strecþ ālc dæg lang, and ālc dōm mihte bēon ylded, se tōwearda līþelīce gehealdan on folme handa.
On wyrtūnum behindan þissum hūsum rīpodon bēanpæddan on stīþum wīngeardum, heora blēo dēopigende þā hwīle þe sēo sunne hire weg bufan rǣdde. Se hærfest wæs slāw, dēmende. Ǣlc pædda mid handa gecoren, ālc sǣd ātogen and tō drȳgenne tospreade. Þonne þā rēgnas cōmon, crupon folc inn, hacelas ofer sculdrum gehangene, se clāþ þicce and frōferlic, āwefen on weftānum of þrǣdum gedēagodum mid gifum þǣre eorþan. Þās hrægl wǣron boren tō byrgenum, tō wacum, tō nihtum þonne se forþgewitena hefig wēox. Ǣlc feald cȳþde geþyld, tīda þonne þæt ān þing tō dōnne wæs tō ābīdenne.
Spell cȳþþ þā þe, gefangene betwēonan forþgewitenum and tōweardum, fundon hīe selfe gewende, nā þurh fǣrlīcre onlīhtinge, ac þurh fæstre gaderunge daga āspendedra on glēdum tō begȳmenne, on winde tō hlystenne, oþþe on wolcnum tō lociānne þe ofer trēohēafdum gaderodon. Se lyft wæs oft stille ǣr storme, nēah gedrēfed and hāt, behātende þunor þe nǣfre cuman mihte. On þǣre stilnesse beeodon menn lȳtle dǣda yldunge: geat lǣfed belocen, færeld ylded, behāt tō eft tō genēosienne þā frignunge tōmorgen. Sēo stilnes wearþ cynne scyldes, wiþsac tō gehrȳpedne bēonne of wyrde.
Gif þū þē tōdæg findst unwillende þā clypunge tō andswarienne, þū meaht cuppan stranges, deorces caffe browan, and lǣtan his stenc on þām rūme ymlendan. Þū miht þē bewindan on þām hefigostan wrīhþe oþþe hacele þe þū āhst, and gefrēdan frōfor on ālcum fealde þā hwīle þe þū be ēagþȳrele sitst, bīdende þæt se rēgn forþgā. Oþþe þū meaht sǣdpæddan of gæres hærfeste ūt niman, and wendan hīe on þīnre folme, and þē selfne gemynegian þæt nā ealle þing æt þǣre ilcan tīde rīpiaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
Lucky Color: Maroon — #800000Lǣt geþyld ymbe þīne sculdru settan, for tōmorgen healdþ rūm ungefylledum andswarum.