On þǣre cartan: twēgen līchaman mid feterum gehæfde, and þēah þā fetera restaþ lēohtlīce, ēaþe āweg tō āhebbenne. Se grund is heard, þā weallas tō nēah tō frōfre, ac sēo ealde duru stent on lyfte gif ǣnig recþ tō gesēonne. Se lyft betwux þǣm līchaman is stillu and stincende, berende stenc hwætes ǣr grimmes, nū mid tīde and stilnesse gewered. Sume hātaþ þis hæftnīed, ōþre hātaþ hit gewuna.
Strǣt is on ecge mistiges cēaptūnes, cūþ for his stāncræfte, þā strǣta and þā nīþerlīcan getimbra of þǣm landstāne geworht. Se stān biþ uppan ēa gedolfen þǣr se strēam līþe is, and þā sciphlæstas flēotaþ stilne on morgene. Stānwyrhtan ceorfaþ blocas mid heora hearmum, dūst rīsende, nǣfre ful gesett, swā geþōht þe wuniaþ ac ne bītaþ. On cēapmiddan wyrcaþ þā ilcan stānflānas bencu and cēaphūsa oferbēamas, ealle mid hrīnung geara and mid færeld manigra scōna gesmēþode. Nāht ne glīseþ. Nāht ne līcett.
Lange ǣr wæs se stān gecoren þǣm ieldstan tūngetimbrum for þǣm þe hē nā ne scān nā ne þēostrode on rēne, ac ānlīce hnescode. Munecas bǣron hine on heora abboddōm, hine tō mynsterstæpum and tō clūsterbencum brūcende. Heora hrægl swīfodon ofer hine, heora handa hīe selfe ofer hlāfofnum of him getimbrodum wærmdon, heora niht wurdon stilne on cleofum mid him gefrætwodum. Þæs abboddōmes cycena fyllodon mid fatum tīnes and lāmes, ānfealdum fatum, bollum and sponum. Þonne se wind hlydde, dranc se stān his stefn, þā gangas smylte forlǣtende.
Ūt on feldgemǣrum timbrodon scēaphierdas drȳge weallas þæs ilcan stānes. Hē scōp þæs landes bān, mearciende hwæt gehealden wæs and hwæt wild forlǣten. Hwīlum, on ǣrrum lenctene, sette hrīm on þās weallas and ofer þā orcgeardtrēowu, ealle þing dēafiende. Weorcendan þe þæs þāwes bidedon holodon heora handa ymbe cuppan, stēam rīsan sceawigende, se lyft gehūssod and unhefig. Hīe bǣron clāþhægle of ungedēagodre wulle gesīwode, mid wedere gehyrdode, berende gemynd scēapa and straces brēmela. Þās hægle, on næglum æt þǣre dura on nihte āhōfene, hangodon hefige mid stence lyftes and weorces, stillu byrne.
Se nama þǣre stōwe cymþ of burge þe stāngrafu scōpon, burh gestreona, getimbrod on þǣm þe man of þǣre heardan eorþan āweg beran mihte and on þǣm þe æfter wæs forlǣten. On þæs tūnes ieldstan cēaphūsum meaht þū gȳt findan byrþenna smǣles, blāces handclāþes, mid handum gewefenes, tō cēapdagum gestæct. Bæceras wrēoþ heora hlāfas on fēowere of āworpenum clāþe gesnidene, hīe mid þrǣde bindende, se hlāf binnan slāwe cōliende, nǣfre byrnende, nǣfre tō hrædlīce cōl weaxende. Þonne stormas gaderiaþ, nimaþ strǣta and weallas swīge, swā se tūn his oruþ healde, and þā hrōfas āgotaþ wæter būtan gedrēfe, ealle þing mǣst swā hīe wǣron wuniende.
Gif þū wille racenteage tōdæg ālīesan, meaht þū dāh on ealdum stānbence cnædan, þā wærmþe under þīnum handum rīsan gefrēdende. Þū meaht þē on þiccum wullhægle bewreon and ūt stæppan ǣr sunnan ūpgange, gehīerende hū swīge hine self ymbe þē gaderaþ. Oþþe þū meaht fēowere ānfealdes handclāþes niman and hine ymbe hwæt dēores wrēon, hlāf, ǣrendgewrit, lȳtelne sorg, þā hyrnas swā fæste oþþe swā lēase infēaldende swā þū wille. Sete þīnne drenc on tīndisc, and lǣt þone stēam drīfan þider þe hē wile.
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