On þǣre cartan wuniaþ þā līchaman æt fōte þæs wēofodes, ac nū slāciaþ þā racenteaga ymbe heora sweoran, lēase swā forgietene bēagas. Hīe ne lōciaþ tō him selfum, nā tō þǣm hīwe mid hyrnum and þæcele. Hīe lōciaþ nyþer, swā smeagende hwæt hit sīe tō wunienne þonne se loca fordwinod is and sēo woruld beorhtre is þonne ǣr. Nān mægen hīe healdeþ, ānlīce se gewuna hefes, gemynd hæftnīede þe lange wunaþ æfter þǣm þe þā fetera forlēton tō bītenne. Se lyft is clǣne ac hefig mid þǣm þe gȳt uncoren is. Onsæcung and unāstyrednes rīcsiaþ hēr, þā hwīle þe ǣlc mann þā lēasan racenteage cōstaþ, ungewiss hwæþer tō ārīsenne oþþe tō wunienne.
On feorrum feldum wexeþ se stilla andswaru. Þǣr, on middan wendendra tīda, rīsaþ smæle stelan of þǣre eorþan. Heora blōstman sind blāce and tȳddre, hræde tō forlǣtenne heora blēda on beorhtre sunnan. Cneorissum sind þās wyrta mid geþyldigum handum gesāwene and geripode. Heora stelan bēoþ ātogene þā hwīle þe þā morgenmistas ūp āhebbaþ, gebundne and on dēawe tō hnescienne forlǣtene. Nēah flēowþ wæter, ēa and burnan wundende þurh land þe herige and rīcu geseah, ac gȳt his rīp þǣm giefþ þe mid care begāþ. Ǣlc stela is behāt, wendung bīdigende betwux lāme and wyrtruman.
Binnan hāme wunaþ se ealda weorc. Þā stelan bēoþ þwogene, slegene, gebegnede oþ þæt þā þrǣdas giefaþ. Spinnend sittaþ æt hwēolum, þrǣdas mid geleaffullum fingrum wrīþende, drēamas eldran þonne gemynd hlemmende. Þā þrǣdas bēoþ on webstōlum gewefene, āþenede and slegene and tō langum, smēþum lengum gelōcode. Ritm is þissum weorce, fæstnes þe ǣgþer ēadmōd and ārwurþe is. Ǣlc lengu clāþes sægþ his āgen spell, handa þe hine scōpon, morgena æt ēarīme, æfena æt heorþe. Sēo wendung ne hrīemþ. Hēo ontȳnþ on līþre anrǣdnesse, on slāwre wendunge hwēoles, on smēþum hrætle þæs webstōles.
Þās clāþas findaþ heora stōwe on ǣlcum hyrne līfes. Hīe weorþaþ þece on bēode tō ānfealdum mete gesettum, þæt hrægl þe cild on āwæcneþ, se scēat ofer wērigum eaxlum on æfenlēohte getogen. Hīe gefrætwaþ windlas and bewindon þā nīwan ācennedan. Hīe wrēoþ hlāf nīwne of ofne, þone hāt fōnde and hine restan lǣtende. Þonne wegfarende ūt sīglaþ, beraþ hīe þisne clāþ mid him. Þonne hāmcyme bēoþ gefēgede, is hē þǣr ēac, flāt and smēþe ālǣd, brād tō gaderienne, tō hlāfbrice, tō nīwum anginne. On wedere fægre oþþe fūle āræfnaþ þās þrǣdas, on sunnan ādrūgode, of rēne gehealden, on stillum hyrnum geþricede and gefealdene. Ǣlc dǣl, nīwe oþþe werod, healdeþ gemynd weorces and mearc līþnesse.
Sumum tīdum cymþ se sceadu eft, se willa tō clifenne tō þǣm þe cūþ is, tō berenne þā racenteage swā gleng. Ac sēo woruld is full lȳtelra wega tō farenne forþ ofer ealde endebyrdnessa. Mann mæg bærum fōtum on cōlum, gewefenum mattum on dægrēd standan, þone dæg būtan ofste onginnan lǣtende. Ōþer mæg bacan, clāþ ofer dāh ālǣdende tō helpanne him rīsan, geþyldig mid tīde. Tō fealdenne lēofost serc, his brād tō smēþenne ǣr þonne man hine on cyste sett, mæg smēaung weorþan ānfealdre care. Ēac tō gaderienne handfulle stela on felde oþþe on wyrtūne, and hīe on bolle tō þwēanne, mæg þone slāwan cræft wendunge ārwurþian.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Līnhwīt.
Lucky Color: Linen — #FAF0E6Nīwe anginn bīdeþ, līþe on þǣm morgenlēohte.