Þæt wīf on þǣre cartan þringþ hire handflatan wiþ þæs lēon ceafl, and þæs nīetenes ēagan nearwiaþ. Þæt þe hwīlum wæs geþwǣrnes, wierþ nū tō costnunge willan. Sēo hand wierþ hefigre, þæt nīeten unstillra. On þissum tīman heardaþ līþe ellen tō nīede, and se wyrtūn behindan him þyncþ tō belūcenne mid þiccum, ādimmendum lēafum. Sēo anlīcnes is still ac tæsl, earm tō fæste geheald, wildnes belocen þurh ecge gewealdes. Þā se emnet hielt, þæt þe forþcymþ nis geþwǣrnes ac heft and stilnes ofertogenes gewinnes.
On tīde ǣr sunnan ūpgange biþ sēo woruld mid ætfēolnesse āmǣned. Colmȳnmenn niþerastīgaþ ǣr dægrēde, heora lēohtfatu blīciende niþer andlang þæs sīþes. Þā þēotan forswelgaþ clypunge bōta and stefna, and þring līþ andlang ǣlces timbres. Hēr nis nīed ætīewednes hǣleþa ac slāw, gewegen nīedung eorþan and tīde, and se nēod forþ tō gānne. On mȳnum sceal mægen bēon gesteored, gebrocen nā tō heard and nā tō slæc, þȳ lǣs þā wāgas eft þringan. Handa mid dūste āblæcede gripaþ heora piccæxas mid gemynde ungelimpa. On stilnesse betwēonan hamorslegum is se deorc nēah full, þicce þing gefēled on þām lungenum. Þāra mȳnmanna steore nis swīþe ungelīc þām gewinne on þǣre cartan, þurhwuniende gemōt wiþ mægenum þe mid willan ānum ne magon bēon ofercumene.
Betwēonan muntum gaderaþ storm, þunorhēafda hēapiende oþþæt hīe þyncaþ þā sunnan tō ādimmenne. Rēn sliehþ sclatehrōf, dreame rytm þe hūsstefna drencþ. Duru bēoþ belocene, lēohtfatu ontende, and on cycene bēoþ īsencroccas on ofen gesette. Þæs crocces brerd, mid gēarum cōcunge gesealfod, is þicce and full gemyndes, þā hǣtu slāwe onfōnde, hīe on gewegenum dǣlum ālǣtende. Þās ealdan tōl wǣron geworht tō þurhwunienne þring: gesmiþod, gehamrod, gehyrded, and forþ giefen þonne sēo woruld self lǣsse gewiss þūhte. Se crocc wylþ on dimmum lēohte, healdende his āgen wiþ nīede stormes, and þēah næfre mid rēþre nīede, ac mid stillre belūcenesse þæs þe innan wealleþ.
On mearcum spelles gaderiaþ hrefnas æt æfenglōme, heora fiþera stille þā hwīle þe hīe on barum bogum īwes sittaþ. Spell cweþaþ þæt heora feþera bodunga behȳden, þæt hīe gefeoht and enda þinga wacien, gewitiende mid unblīcendum ēagum. Hīe ne gāþ betwēonan. Hīe scēawiaþ, and lǣtaþ tīgan niþer plegian. Þā Norþmenn clypodon hīe ǣr hīe þæt uncūþe inēodon, hopiende tō borgienne lȳtel geþyldes and stilnesse þæs fugles. On tīdum þonne gewinn wīsdōm oferstīgan þrēaþ, sitt se hrefn ufan, gemyndgende þæt dēopran mægen þǣre worulde biddap āre, nā ofermōd.
Tō mētenne þone dæg on gāste þissera þinga mæg mann sittan mid morgens stilnesse, and lætan hīe settan ǣr styrenes onginnþ. Man mæg þæt ealde īsen glisian, his brerd on slāwum, willendlicum hringum eft settende, gemyndgende þā handa þe hit ǣr heoldon. Col of þǣre nihtes fȳre mæg onsundor bēon gesett, lȳtel lāf þæs þe āweg is, tō gemyndgienne þæt nā ealle enda sind slege. Gif stormas þrēaþ, mæg ēagþȳrel lȳtle cīnan open bēon forlǣten, tō lǣtenne þā lyft hīw and swēg gemyndgian begeondan hæfte þæs scyldes.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
Lucky Color: Black — #000000Læt forhæfdnesse þurhwununge mētan, and læt þā stilnesse rūm wīsdōme dōn.