Þæs wīfes hand þringþ heardor on þæs lēon ceaflum. Of geþyldigre līþnesse wend hire gripe, and þæs miclan cattes tunge bīegþ eft mid tīgan. Mūscelas under felle, hwīlum gelīþode, wexaþ nū tæsle. Þæt land wierþ stōw þǣr geweald and nīed stōwa wrixlaþ. Þæt þe ongan swā plega getrēowes, wierþ tō costnunge willena, eall under ealdre sunnan þe þā eorþan bæcþ and þæt gærs ādrȳgþ.
On heortan ealdra burga glōwþ ofen behindan stānwyrhtan wyrcstōwe. Lām, mid þūmum and mid handflatum gesceapen, gǣþ on ofen swā brōsce hringas and cymþ forþ swā cloddas, heard and byrnende, on wāgas āhēapod. Þæs stānwyrhtan cræft is cræft tīde: tō lȳtel hǣtu, and þā cloddas molsniaþ; tō micel, and hīe tōberstaþ, ecga brōsce mid ofermǣle. Þās cloddas brȳcgaþ cāfertūnas and līniaþ þerscoldas openra baþa and templa, grundas endebyrdnesse ac ēac belūcenesse, mearc burgscipe and his wealla. On þissere byrig biþ strengu gemeten be þām þe man timbrian mæg, ac ēac be þām þe ūt biþ geheald.
On ǣrestan morgenne smēocþ scēata ufan cycenum þǣr hlāfas baccaþ and cetelas weallaþ. Þā heorþas sind gelīnede mid þām ilcan cloddum, healdende þā hǣtu þurh lange wintras and hræde mōd. Þæs cōces hand, hwīlum līþe, hwīlum genīeded mid hræde oþþe mid hungre, drīfþ þone fȳrsticcan dēoppor on glēda. Rind wierþ on hlāfe tō hræde, and þæs fȳres hungor wierþ scearp. Tō micel nīedung, and se mete byrnþ, fōda swā costnung, willa þæs cōces wiþ wilde tīehung lēges.
Begeondan wāgum sind feldas gemearcode mid fūrum and mid mōdum wederes. Þonne se wind geþyldes ūt yrnþ and of ēaste instormaþ, þonne biþ sēo eorþe mid heardum rēne geslegen, ǣlc dropa feallende mid heft gēarhunda. On sumum stōwum is se grund tōsprǣdd mid lāfum ealdra tigelweorca, þā scerda tōsprǣddende on wōgum ealdra wega. Þās dǣlas gemyndgaþ handa þe þrȳcdon and scōpon, and fȳr þe mā bǣdon þonne wīs wæs tō giefanne. Þā feldas sind tōdǣlede mid lāfe gewinnes and mid lāfe hǣte: mearca gesette nā mid līþnesse, ac mid nīede.
On mǣrum hyþum hēapodon cēapmenn hwīlum cloddas on scipholum, ballast wiþ ȳþum, þā hwīle þe sǣmenn swǣton and wyrigdon. Tō micel heft, and se bord hrān. Tō lȳtel, and þæt scip wandrode. Se emnet wæs ā unēaþe, geþwǣrnes geheald mid carfullum dōme āna, ā on frēcne tō hieldenne on ofermǣl. Þās tōl, þās cræftas, þās stōwa: ealle ætīewaþ þā twīecge strengu, þonne þring wierþ tō nīede, and sēo hand þe stilþ, tō fȳste wend.
Tōdæg smeaga tō cnēowlienne and tō hrīnenne tigel oþþe stān lange ǣr gesettne, and lætan þīne handa restan oþþæt þū his wǣtme oþþe his ciele gefēle. Þū meaht hlāf bacan on ofne gelīnedum mid ealdum lāme, þā rinde carfullīce scēawiende, þīne geþyld cunnende. Stand ūt on windigre tīde, and læt mægen lyfte þē gemyndgian emnetes betwēonan būgunge and wiþerstandnesse. Oþþe, āne hwīle, sceawa eald tol, tange, fȳrsticca, stānwyrhtan hamor, and smeaga þā līne betwēonan scieppunge and nīedunge, and þā stǣra þe on heora handlum sind geþrȳcced.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Fȳrrēad.
Lucky Color: FireBrick — #B22222Læt līþnes þīne handa lǣdan þǣr nīed þone dæg āna heardode, for þām þe strengu þe bīegþ, leng þurhwunaþ þonne strengu þe bricþ.