Under þǣre þece þe bufan þæs wægneres hēafde biþ gehealden, nearwaþ sēo woruld tō þām forþweardum pæþe. Þā twā nīetenu æt þām gehlæste standaþ gearu, nāþer gelīc þām ōþrum, hira orþung mistigende þone ǣrdæg. Þæs burge stāngeat bīdeþ beforan, mearc betwēonan þām cūþan and þām openan wege. Se gripe on þām brīdelum is stæþig, nā nēadlic. Bēgen nīetenu styriaþ þonne hīe tōgædere bēoþ gelǣdde, nā ātogene. Sēo styrenes cymþ nā of willan ānum, ac of geþēodnesse and geferrǣdenne on gange. Sēo þece, āstrecced and unbīgende, scildeþ þone wægnere wiþ ungewissum heofone.
Se weg beforan is gebrycgod, and þēah tōstenced mid sceardum coles gefallenum of wænum þe hwīlum tō þǣre smiþþan hlynsodon. Sēo ealde smiþþe æt burge ecge, mid hire gehamorodum īsen and glōwendum glēdum, hæfþ lange līne rēces on lyft send, and hire sōt dūstaþ þæs wægnes hweol swā hē færþ. Se stenc þǣre smiþþan hangþ on lyfte, geþyldig and dēop. Þāra nīetena gehlæstas scīnaþ mid pole ealdes scōhlǣþres, lāfum of þæs scōwyrhtan bēode þǣr handa þicce hȳda scōpon on scōs and coddas þām þe woldon faran. On þǣre burge niþeran dǣle tīehþ bæcere disces ryhlāfa of heorþe, þā rinda craceliende and forbærnde þǣr corn līg mētte.
Begeondan þām geate licgaþ feld þǣr sēo crāwe gǣþ, hēafod hnigiende swā hēo cefer of fūre pluccaþ. Þes fugol, mid blæcfeþerum and scearpum ēagum, rītt þā lyft on morgenwinde. Þæs wægneres mōd drīfþ tō spelle þæs hrefnes þe ealde mearca mearcode, bodigende hwǣr se wudu geendode and se lange weg ongon. Wegfarende gemunaþ ēac niht under heofone būtan steorrum, forlorene on fellrēadre þēostre nīwes mōnan. Under swelcum heofone bēoþ se norþnēdl and þæt scearpe andgiet weges āscerped be nīede. Lēohtfætes lēoht þyncþ beorhtre þonne hit sceal þurh swelce dēopnesse ceorfan.
Stǣr rītt mid þām wægne, cēapmenn on læccedum trēowe of feorrum landum, hira cysta and bolla belocene mid polieredre geendunge þe wætan wiþstent, dēore for þȳ þe hīe healdaþ and scildiaþ. Be rīces ēa bǣron hūlcas hwīlum hlæst on seolce bewunden, gehefgod mid obsidiāne of fȳrenum sǣriman. Se stān, ceald on handa, wæs gesceapen on flānas oþþe gepolierod on scēawerglæs, scēawiende anrǣdne andwlitan eft tō him selfum. On cēape æt fōte burgwealles gȳt colcēapmann dūst on lāmcrocc tō blæce, gecēapod be bōcerum þe siga and friþuwǣra on scriftas āwrītaþ.
Weder gaderaþ æt þām heofonriman, hefig mid behāte stormes. Sēo lyft þiccaþ, and se wægnere gemyndgaþ hū eorþtilian hira hrægl gehende tēoþ þonne þunorwolcnu inn wealcaþ, and hors bēoþ gelǣd on gebeorg bernea þecedra mid tyrwe. Rēn, þonne hē cymþ, oferwrīhþ þā strǣtstānas, gaderigende betwēonan stānum swā þæs wægnes hweol smælne scūr ūp sendaþ.
On stillum rūmum æt æfenne bærnaþ hīreda drȳge plūm bōgas on fyrfæte, smoca bīgende swā tē biþ gebriwen on cetelum mid ylde deorce gewordenum. On wintermorgenum biþ se heorþ geswopen mid pinsle of wilige, þā byrstas forsengede of gystrandæges fȳrum. Þæs burge nihtweard, lēohtfæt swingende, scēawaþ loca and bord on cēapsetlum, his fōtstæpas ēaciende swā hē færþ be ealdum anfilte on smiþes tūne.
Tōdæg mæg mann his scōs polian mid þǣre ilcan gīemene þe wægnere giefþ lǣþrenum gehlæste. Sete crāwan feþer on ēagþȳrelþerscolde, and sceawa hū se wind hīe āhebbe. Briw calic gebræddes bere tē, and lǣt þone stenc drīfan þurh þæt rūm, oþþe wrīt andgiet on scēate þiccum mid blæce and hīd hit tō gehealdnesse.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
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