Stapol stent on middan ealdes stedes, gewered mid þrȳste unārīmedra scōna and hōfa. Blæcernlēoht strīcþ his brād, flīcigende mid ǣlcum blǣde þe on þā duru gǣþ. Twā īsenracenteaga, ǣr fæste behwyrfede, hangiaþ nū lēase wiþ horses sadol, heora endebyrdnes gewanod þonne se wæccenness āslācþ. Sēo wilnung, swā unrōt hund, ymbfærþ þone rūm. Hēo biþ getemed ānlīce þonne hēo gesewen biþ, and þēah þā tōl tō healdanne hīe sittaþ ā binnan rǣce. Se sadol self, hnesce of gearum polunge and swātes, bereþ gemynd færeldes and byrþenna. Se glēd of þæs blæcernes līge, fæst þonne hē on handa biþ geholod, wild þonne hē þǣm lyfte biþ forlǣten, onlīht þæt tōdāl betwux gewealde and ālǣtenesse.
On ealdum cēaptūnum wæs se sadol mearc cēapes and trēowe. Cræftmenn scōpon hine langum færeldum ofer drȳgum feldum, þǣr wegfarende leornodon þearfe āræfnunge and wīsdōm tō witanne hwonne tō ofāstīgenne. On spelle ne born þæcele on stapole gesett nǣfre būtan hierde. Āna forlǣten, forswelgde hire līg þone lyft oþþe ācōlode, and ānlīce se wæccende hand heold hire lēoht cwic. Swā is hit be þǣm racenteagum. Lēase, ne þrēataþ hīe, and heora sceadu nis būton ȳþ on þǣre geþricedan eorþan. Ac ānre tīde gymeleasnes, and hīe mihton bindan, warnung of spelle on ǣlcne hring gegræfen.
Eald spell is of þǣm gemǣrlandum, þǣr nȳtenwægas ēabedu oferfaran and se lyft stincþ leþeres and smīces. On wætum æfternōnum gaderiaþ stormwolcn, ac hīe seldon tobrecaþ. Þā hierdas gaderiaþ ymbe þone sadolbēod, dūst of sadolum āswēopende and spell secgende be cwidum geslægenum and tobrocenum. Se stapol on þǣm hyrne, of þǣm ilcan fæstan trēowe gegræfen swā þā faldhegas, underwreþþ ǣgþer þone sadol and þā gemynd þāra þe ūt ridon under bewolcnum heofonum, sēcende spēda oþþe flēonde gyltas. Sēo þæcele, ānfeald picgeotod stæf, is gearu þǣre nihte ǣrestan þȳstre, ā mid willan onǣled and nǣfre swā gymeleas glenge forlǣten byrnende. Ǣlc þing is dǣl ǣwe: se sadol tō færeld, sēo racenteag tō wæccenne, sēo þæcele tō sweotolnesse.
On hāme wunaþ tācn þissa tōla: brīdel æt þǣre dura āhangen, scōhclǣnsere on þǣm þerscwolde, se leþerhandfæst ealdes hearmes restende on þǣm weorcbēode. Þā þrǣdas þe þās þing tōgædere healdon sind gesewene, and heora toslitene endas sprecaþ tō wæccenne. Tō oncnāwenne āgene wilnunga, tō gesēonne heora hiw and endebyrdnesse, is tō healdenne þā þæcele and tō healdenne þā racenteage lēase. Þæs stedes swīge is lār wǣge, stōw þǣr se nȳtena gecynd resteþ, and þēah þā mean tō rīdenne oþþe tō healdanne nēah handa wuniaþ.
Tōdæg mæg mann wel werodne gyrdel polian, ǣlcre wunde and ǣlcum græfe gymende. Hē mæg spang oþþe hring on pusan fæstnian, and þæs þinges hefe on his folm settan gefrēdan. Hē mæg sittan wiþ wudubēode and leþerþwang bētan, oþþe candel on æfenlēohte onǣlan and sceawian hū se līg ǣlcum winde andswaraþ. Ǣlc lȳtel dǣd is weg tō gesēonne þā wilnunge sweotole, nā āflīemed nā for þæt self gedwolen, ac gebrocen swā tōl on hire tīman.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Sadolbrūn.
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