Se drīfere on þām wægne healdeþ þā brīdelas on ungewissum handum. Þā hweol healdaþ hwirflunge, ceorfende getwinna furh on eorþan, ac þā nīetenu gegeocod tō þām wægne lōciaþ fram him selfum. Hira līchaman tēoþ forþ, hōfas slītende þone grund, and þēah hira ēagan metaþ missenlīce wegas. Se wægnere gefrēt þā styrunge, ac nā þone forþtēon. Se weg wierþ ymbhwyrft, and ælc wendung is gelōmnes. Þæt færeld mæg mā þonne se ende, hwīlum mā ēac þonne andgiet weges.
Geara ǣr fundon flīemend gebeorg on þiccum wudum feorr fram gecrȳnedum burgum, stōwum þiccum mid sceadwum and wyrttrumum. Hira fōtstæpas gewiton on þone underwuda, and ofer tīd ārifon hīe tūnas mid hrōfum gewefenum of fībrum on blēo āwyltum. Sǣmenn of feorrum landum cēapodon þās clāþas, spyrigende fingras ofer hefigum fealdum þe heoldon stenc eorþan æfter rēne. Þonne stormas þone sǣriman beoton, wearp sēo sǣ scipu on sandhlincas and lēt hīe gestrandode. On lande bētton þā forwræcenan hūlas mid tyrwe and rāpe, handa bestænde be þām ilcan wyrtum þe þone gewefenan clāþ geblēodon. Hēr wearþ se willa tō farenne nēod tō libbenne, and þæt land self þūhte sūcan ælcne unstillne tred.
Spell weaxaþ ymbe þās gebeorg, be stormum þāra wolcnu hēah stabeliaþ and þone heofon gebrȳsiaþ, and be wæstme þe gehende grunde wexþ, sūr and gewrinclod, gegaderod on windlum be þām þe bīdaþ þæt þā wolcnu tōgān. Se sealt of þissum wæstme wylþ manige tīda, fyllende þone cicen mid stence ēgþer ge sūrum ge hefigum. On stilnesse betwēonan hweaþum windes healdeþ eald cystelbēod bollan þissa sealtna. Hlāf, on unemnum sceardum tōbrocen, biþ dȳfed on þone clibbegan sealt swā þunor hwisprþ begeondan þām ēagþȳrelbordum.
On ōþrum lande gīemaþ weorcmenn on blēohūsum fatu wylmende ofer niþerum fȳrum. Clāþ biþ niþer ālǣten, gewend mid langum trēowenum rōþrum swā þā fībra þone wǣtan drincaþ. Se clāþ cymþ hefig, hlinende ofer earmum þæs leorningcnihtes þe þone cræft of ealdfæderum geleornode. Ælc anweald biþ gefealden and gestabelod be heorþe, gearu tō sēamwyrhtum oþþe tō cēapmannum þurh farendum mid nīwum and mynetum. Ēac on burgum, þǣr stānstrǣta on wōhnesse wrīþaþ, sind þā þe beraþ sweotole oþþe belt of þissum clāþe, gemynd hwænan hīe cōmon oþþe hwider hīe hyhtaþ tō farenne.
Þǣr is drȳge wind tōdæg, þæt cyn þe swēopþ ofer wīdum gærsfeldum and beorg, tōstencende lēaf and dūst. Se heofon is bewolcnod, ac þǣr nis nān rēn, ān se unstilla sweg bōga and cīg fugla wendendra stōwe. On þissum hwīlum scearpaþ þæt gefēl tō bēonne ungebunden, swā scip gestrandod sōna begeondan gesundre līnan hyþes. And þēah bringþ ēac sciphrēos ungelīce handa tōgædere, tō timbrienne fȳr, tō dǣlenne hlāf, tō wrixlenne spell, and tō bīdenne þone nīehstan flōd.
Tōdæg meaht þū hlāfsceard snīþan and hit smyrian mid þiccum sealtum, and lǣtan þā sūrnesse wunian on tungan. Þū meaht þē bewindan on hefigum sculdorhrægle, his web frōfrend wiþ þīnre hȳde, and hlystan feorrum swēge þunores. Þū meaht ealdne trēowene bollan on handum wendan, spyrigende þā ǣdre mid þūman, gemunende þā handa þe hine scōpon. Oþþe þū meaht findan spell þāra þe feorr wōrodon and hām worhton, and hit hlūde rǣdan swā se wind styreþ ūtan þīnum ēagþȳrele.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
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