On blæcernlēohtum cleofan þæs Dēofles stent stapol. On him blæcþ healfbornen þæcele, hire līg dafniende mid unrōtum hungre, flīcigende hīw wiþ þone stān āweorpende. Ymbe þone grundweall sind hefige hringas āhōfene, ac þā racenteaga sind lēase, heora īsen bīdigende willan oþþe gymeleasnesse tō dēmenne heora þrȳste. Hēr nis sēo wilnung cwearterneweard ac tōl, swā lange swā hire ansīen genemned biþ and hire lēoht gesewen.
Mūþ scræfes ontȳnþ on feorrum ūplande, on bleoh þæs tyndres þe beorgfȳr fēdeþ. On þǣm Seolcwege cēapodon cēapmenn ǣr lacfatu of seldnum trēowe gegræfene, heora brādas gepolode and oferwrogene oþ þæt hīe glōwodon swā glēda under blæstbelge gehæfde. On cycenum glōwaþ heorte heorþes þonne nīwe glēda bēon geræcede, ūp sendende hāt þe þā stearcesse ealdra gewuna meltan mæg. Þā racenteaga þe æt þæs Dēofles fōtum restaþ ne sind fæste. Hīe sind swā þā þe smiþas brūcaþ, lēase ātogene þonne se cræft frēodōm biddeþ, āþenede ānlīce tō scieppenne. Ufan gemynegaþ sēo þæcele þone bǣlfȳr þe ǣgþer warnung and laþung tācnaþ, tōl tō gaderienne, tācn þǣm þe of þȳstrum sceawiaþ.
Eald spell is of þǣm sǣrīme þæs Middangeardes sǣs, þǣr fisceras bidedon þæt se heofon æfter storme clǣnsode. Þā hwīle þe þā wolcn tōclufon and þā ǣrestan leoman þā wætan lāmhrōfas gehrinon, þūhte swā þā hūs selfe fȳr fēngon, byrnende mid grimmum hihte. Þās hrōfas, of eorþan geworhte and mid handum gesceapene, cōlodon ǣr on ofnum oþ þæt hīe gemynd hātes bǣron, gemynd wendunge þurh līg. Wegfarende leornodon swylce hrōfas feorran tō oncnāwenne, witende þæt hīe tūnas mearcodon þǣr man wærmþe and mete findan mihte, and wēnunge lācne ānnesse.
On gemǣrlandum Ēastes līfaþ þǣre þæcelan geþofta on feldum: hātpiporcodd on þrǣde ādrūgode, heora hȳd þicce and glisniende, behātende ǣgþer sār and ālīesednes. Þās codd, on hēahnesse sumores geripode, healdon binnan him þæt ilce mægen swā sēo þæcele on þǣm stapole, mægen tō āweccanne and tō oferswīþenne. On æfene grindon cocas hīe mid mortere and pilestre, ūt ālǣtende stenc þe þone lyft fylþ and nēahbūras tōgædere tēah. Se mortere self, ānfeald fæt bæcenre eorþan, is stapol on lȳtlum, and sēo mælung dǣd þe rāwe wilnunge tō fōdan scieppþ.
Sēo wilnung, sēo þæcele, þā racenteaga, ne sind tō ondrǣdenne ac tō ongietenne. Mann þe beforan þǣm stapole stent mæg cēosan tō āhebbenne þā þæcele and forþ tō gānne, oþþe þā racenteaga mid ānfealdre slācunge feallan lǣtan. Sēo þæcele mæg weg þurh mist onlīhtan, oþþe warnung bēon wiþ þæt þe beforan ligeþ. Sēo racenteag mæg bāt wiþ ēaþrȳste fæstnian, oþþe behwyrfed and gehealden bēon oþ þæt hire nytt sweotol biþ.
Tōdæg mæg mann tygelbolla on his bēod settan and hine mid lætum piporum fyllan, oþþe stormfeallene twigu gaderian tō onǣlenne fȳr æfenwærmþe. Hē mæg lacged lȳtelþing sēcan, his fingras ofer þone glisniendan brād lǣdan, þæt geweorc smeagende þe rāw trēow wende. Oþþe, on swīge ǣr slǣpe, mæg hē āne wilnunge āwrītan þe hē scieppan wile, and hīe wiþ candellīge settan, tō gesēonne nā tō gehȳdenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Rēadgeolu.
Lucky Color: OrangeRed — #FF4500Tōdæg is dæg tō onǣlunge þæcela, tō ālīesunge þæs þe bint, and tō coce ellenes.