On heortan rihtes Dēofles cartan rīseþ se stapol, nā swā cynestōl, ac swā anfilt, hefig, fæst, berende mearca manigra slega. Gebundene hīw bīgaþ, ac hīe ne sind tō heora feterum gesamnode. Mid ānfealdre dǣde, gif hīe heora gripe līesaþ, fealþ sēo racenteag lēas, and ūtcyme biþ mægenlic, ac ānlīce gif man hit sweotole gesihþ. Sēo wilnung byrnþ swā þæcele, hēah āhafen ofer þæt wēofod, hire līg ǣgþer warnung and laþung. Þæt lēoht flīceþ wiþ þā weallas, and onlīht nā þā wīdnesse worulde, ac þā rihtan ymbhwyrftas þæs þe nēah stent: feld æfter rīpe, þā drȳgan stelan þe standende lāfe sind, and of him cyfas gegaderode tō fēdanne winterdēor oþþe tō onǣlenne nīedfȳr.
Wyrt is on openum stōwum wildes feldlandes and wiþ hegum behindan ealdum tūnhūsum, hire stelan hēage, hire feþra wāfgende on lætne sumores winde. Þēos gierd, þonne hēo genumen and ādrūgod wæs, wæs gebunden tō besmhandlum, tō wācum hlǣderum wyrtwearda, oþþe tō ribbum lȳtelra scēada. Sēo ilce wyrt, gemalen and āseofen, cōm on handa dēagwyrhtena, þe hīe on coporhwerum wēpton, hōpiende bleoh þe spell fæstnode on hefigum wullhægum oþþe on smǣlum sīwungum ǣwiscbēaga. Scēaphierdas sceawodon heora heorda gān þurh scēadas þissa gierda, and þā scēap hwīlum þā blōstmas biton, gewuna þe sume gelȳfdon þæt hē hīe hāle hēolde þonne þā tīda hearde wurdon.
Cēapmenn on ǣrrum tūnum cēapodon þās gierda on scēafum, gebundne wiþ saccum cornes and cyfum huniges, ǣlc stela mearc lætes sumores genihtes and plegan on þǣm tōweardan cyle. Stǣr wrīt heora brūc on lǣcecræfte: gewylde, āseofene, and on sealfclūtas geþrungene, folclācnung þāwerra liþa and blǣca. Sēo gierd wēox on þǣm rīmum, nā tame ac ā nēah, tācn anrǣdnesse and þǣre stillan nytte þe māran gebǣrum oferlīfaþ. On sumum folcspellum wurdon þās gierda gyrda on handum hegedrȳa, tōl nā rīces ac sweotolnesse, gebrocen tō āswēopanne dwolma and tō mearcienne gemǣre betwux þǣm þe man gītsaþ and þǣm þe man cēosan mæg.
Sēo þæcele on þǣre cartan gemynegaþ hū weder mæg fǣrlīce ūp āhebban on lætne hærfestdæge, þonne se heofon clǣnsaþ and þā wegas mid þǣm endemestan drȳgum wyrtum gerīmde sind, ǣlc stela scīmende on āwendedum lēohte. Tō gānne þǣr is tō witanne lust færeldes and gehaftnesse cēles lyftes þe þā hȳd bīteþ. Se wind, scearp and clǣne, hrætleþ þurh þā gierda, and wyrcþ drēam þe sæcþ frēodōm binnan mearcum, sang þe þone gehȳrendan gemynegaþ þǣre wilnunge sōþes hīwes.
On cycene sitt wuden hunigsticca wiþ deorcum hlāfe, bēgen gemyndig þāra nyttan cræfta þe þæt land gesceop. Nēah resteþ mortere and pilestre, mid gearum wyrtmælunge gewemmed, on bēame wiþ rāpcoile þe man ǣr of þǣre wyrte þrǣdum wrāþ. Þǣre þæcelan lēoht biþ geedlæht on glēde ealdra tōla, gebrocenra tō snīþenne and tō bindenne, tō tōdǣlenne þæt þe þearf is fram þǣm þe mann tō eorþan bint.
Gif þū wille mid strēame tōdæges cartan faran, swāpa þīn hūs mid handworhtum besman, oþþe gadera feallene stelan of þīnum nēahfelde and bind hīe tōgædere tō gemynde þæs þe man geocan mæg. Þrēc þā drȳgan blōstmas betwux tramum bōce, oþþe wēp heora stelan on wearmum wætere tō lȳtlum drence, þæt þū onbyrge þæt þe of felde tō handa biþ boren. Lǣt þīnne lōc sittan on þǣm handlum and tōlum þe ā bidedon, gearwe tō þēowienne, witende þæt racenteaga sind racenteaga ānlīce þonne hīe forgietene sind.
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