On middan þæs rūmes rīseþ stapol, gesamnod of þǣm blocum þe līge and hearme oferlīfaþ. Heora ecga sind gecnotte, heora brādas mid gearum hrīnunges and wederes gerūhode. Hīe wǣron ǣr lām, hnesce and gēap, mid handum and mid hihte gesceapene, on lyfte ādrūgode and siþþan unmiltse on heortan ofnes gewordene. Sēo þæcele þe on þissum stapole gesett is byrnþ mid fæstum hungrigum glēde, hire lēoht ofer þā weallas āworpen, glisnende of feterum þe lēase hangiaþ and þēah andwearde sind. Þā racenteaga, cōle and hefige, þyncaþ ǣrest bindan, ac mid nēahre sceawunge sind heora hringas opene, gearwe tō feallenne gif se gehæfta cīesþ tō gesēonne.
Sēo wilnung, on lēohte þisse þæcelan, wierþ tōl nā wītega. Þā ealdan blocas, on þǣm hāte gesmiþode þe forspillan mihte, sind nū gearwe tō sceade and tō strengþe. On wundendum lanum forgietendra ceastra legdon þās blocas grundweall heorþum and ofnum þe ealle nēahbūras fēddon. Hēr rīseþ hlāf ofer glōwende glēdum, rind weaxende on þǣm beorhtan hāte þe þā ilcan blocas healdon, þā þe ǣr þæs fȳres weg ēodon. On spelle sind þās blocas bān stīpela þe þā hungrigan anwealdes oþþe wīsdōmes timbrodon. On sōþe sind hīe þæt þe hīred on blēcum middewintre wearm healdeþ, þæt þe þone hāt healdeþ þe lāmfatu scieppþ, þæt þe þone þerscwold wiþ þone storm behealdeþ.
Se stapol gemyneþ ǣlcre handa þe his blocas on stōwe hōf. Þǣre þæcelan fȳr, geborgod of fȳrbeorge, of līgette, oþþe of carefullum slege flintes, ætīewþ þā sōþ on þǣm rūme: racenteaga þe slāciaþ þonne se berend forlǣt tō gelȳfenne on heora mægene. On spelle leornaþ ān gebunden tō eorþan þurh dwolman hæftnīede tō gesēonne, and findeþ þæt þā fetera wǣron ā lēasran þonne hīe ætīewdon. On cycenum and on smiþþum drincaþ þā ilcan blocas þæs līges wildnesse and āgiefaþ hīe swā wærmþe, swā hlāf, swā stīele tō endebyrdnesse gesmiþod nā tō forspille.
Rēn fealþ ūte, drēmende wiþ fæste weallas. Þā blocas, mid gearum wederes āþȳstrode, healdon fæste. On lanum behindan ealdum bæcernum bīdiaþ stæccas āworpenra bloca eft tō brūcenne, heora hefe fulfremed tō gefrætwienne nīwe ofnas oþþe tō underwreþenne wyrtbedd. Se ilca andfeng þe þǣre ceastre bān wyrcþ wyrcþ tōl hire wendunge, gemynd þæt þæt þe wunaþ hæfþ þone līg oferlīfed, nā mid wēan ac mid willan. Þæt þæcellēoht flīceþ, and on þǣm wendendan glēde mæg man ǣgþer costunge and frēodōm gesēon, ǣgþer þā racenteage and þone openan weg.
Tōdæg meaht þū stānas oþþe blocas gaderian and lȳtel wēofod wyrcan, ārwurþiende āræfnunge and þæt þe þone līg oferlīfeþ. Tobrec lȳtelne gewunan þe þē ymbfærþ, þēah hit sīe ānne dæg, tō oncnāwunge þāra racenteaga þe ālīesede weorþaþ þonne hīe sōþlīce gesewene sind. Gā þurh dǣl þīnre ceastre þǣr þā ieldstan getimbro standaþ, hrīn þā weallas þā hwīle þe þū gæst, gemyndig þāra handa þe hīe stæcton. Oþþe cnæd dāh and bac hlāf on ofne mid þǣm ilcan ealdan andfenge gefrætwodum, and lǣt þīnne āgenne hungor weorþan þing gedǣled and underwreþþend.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Fȳrrēad.
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