Sēo anlīcnes sitt on hēahre bence, īdel reaf flōwende ofer þæt setl, þā wǣgan on hire handa wōhlīce hangende. Lyft gǣþ þurh þæt rūm, and dēþ þā benc cracian and þā hefigan wahriftu swingan. Þæt sweord, āmǣned tō hrædre sweotolnesse, hielt unbrocen wiþ þone swēr. Nāne bidend ne cōmon. Se cleofa, getimbrod tō dōmum, bītt on stilnesse. Ūte is dōmstōwcēapstōw mid ādrȳgdum lēafum geswopen, sumaces þæs ærran tīman and dǣlum cistenhula. Hēr is emnet ylded, nā of gedwolan, ac of ætfēolnesse. Sēo lyft is þicce, swā sēo tīd ǣr sumeres storme, þonne wolcnu ofer þā burg hēapiaþ and þunor biþ gehinted ac nā gȳt gecweden.
Elles, on hyllum begeondan byrig ecge, heald eorþdǣl þā bewrigenan wyrttruman ealdes granattrēowes. His wæstm, tōclofen and þiccrinded, līþ tōsprǣdd under, sǣd scīnende betwēonan feallen lēafum. On ōþerre worulde woldon þās sǣd bēon geteald, gewegen, and gedǣled. Tōdæg restaþ hīe þǣr hīe feollon, forlǣtene crāwum and lȳtlum nīetenum þe gīemaþ þæt menn forgāþ. Þrǣd stǣres gǣþ þurh þās forlǣtene sceawunge, gemynd cēapwegena þǣr ādrȳged wæstm and wyrtgemang mid carfullum handum wǣron gewegen, ǣlc cēapung getrēowed and gewiten. Nū sind þā stallan belocene, þā wǣgan unbrocene, þæs cēapmannes gerīm ungefylled.
Gēarhundum ǣr, ofer sǣ, fōr sciphēap of hyþe on lætre hærfeste, berende web clāþes dēope and langsumlīce gedēagodes, gewefen mid carfulnesse wintres nihte. Þās web fōron feorr, gecēapod on cēapstōwum under stānbogum and on dūstegum cumena hūsum, gebrocen tō wrīgenne lagscrēad, tō mearcienne setl ealdra, and hwīlum tō scyldenne gewundodne wegfarend fram ciele. Se clāþ wæs tācen anwealdes, bēacn þæt sēo riht endebyrdnes wolde bēon geheald. Ac þonne se rihta stæfn ætfēole is, þonne is se clāþ clāþ āna, gefealdod on cystum, forgiten behindan locenum durum. Þæs cēapmannes behāt is ungefylled, se gecwide ununderwriten.
On hēahlandum wexþ þæt weder hwīlum hefig riht ǣr æfenglōme. Scēaphierdas geseoþ hit ǣrest, scēawiende heora heorda unēaþe wendan þā hwīle þe se heofon dimmaþ and se wind rīst, berende stenc wǣtre eorþan and feorres þunores. Līget blīcaþ, ac se rēn hielt hine selfne, āhafen. Se emnet betwēonan dæge and nihte, sunnan and storme, þyncþ āne hwīle āslīdan. Þā scēaphierdas witan tō gaderienne heora scyrtelas and tō stēorenne þā scēap tō scylde, ac tōniht is hwā læt hāmcumende. Sēo heord bītt, ungewiss, on openum mōre.
Innan þām stillan hūse restaþ mortere and stampe unbrocen on cycenscealfe, heora brerd gemearcod of þǣre endemestan grindunge wyrtgemanges. Se cōc is āweg, hwæþere tō ōþrum þēowdōme geclypod, and se mete nis gearwa. Þēaw þæs bēodes, hlāf gebrocen, mete āgoten, ne biþ tōniht. On his stede mearcaþ þā tōl þone willan, þone weg bīdende handa þe him andgiet giefe.
Gif þū wilt, feald lengu þæs cēapmannes clāþes and sete hīe be sīdan þīnum weorcstede, swā behāt tō gefyllednesse þæs þe hangiende is forlǣten. Lǣf dǣl granatæpples on þīnum ēagþȳrele þām fuglum, swā gebǣre tō þām þāra andweardnes ætfēole is. Grind smælne dǣl wyrtgemanges on þīnum mortere, ēac gif nān mete his ne þearf, āna tō weorþienne þā ungefylledan dǣd. Bīd on æfenne, hlystende storme þe nā gȳt ne tōberst, and gemyndga tō tellanne þæt þe bīdende is forlǣten.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
Lucky Color: Maroon — #800000Geþyld is hwīlum se āna gewita, and ēac on ætfēolnesse lǣfþ willa lāst.