Twēgen līchaman on sceadwe bogan, heora handwyrsta mid racenteagum ymbhringode swā lēasum swā forgieten scēat. Sēo stānflōr is wæt, þā woruld ufan edlǣcende. Hwæt hīe healdeþ, ac se heald is cyre, nā dōm. Ufan bīdeþ se hyrneda, ac nū mid lōce læs þȳrlum, geþyldigran, swā wēniende þæt hīe of heora āgenum willan ārīsen.
On ealdum spellum is scēawere þerscwold tō þǣre niþerworulde. Se brād þæs scēaweres, flāt and cōl, hæfþ andettnessa lange gehæfde gesewen. Hē is disc of þǣm se mōna itt, dǣl nihtes heofones gefæstnod þǣm īdelan oþþe þǣm dǣdbētendan. On hāme wīpaþ hwā þone brād clǣnne, ansīene ǣgþer cūþe and ōþre gesēonde, þā racenteage æt þǣre þrotan nū gleng nā feter. Se edlǣc is sōþra þonne gemynd þæs mōdes.
Feorr norþ, on mōnþum þonne lēoht hrædlīce dīestraþ, frēoseþ sēo ēa. Under þǣre rinde is se strēam gȳt cwic, ungesewen. Fisceras borian hola þurh þā gefrorenan hȳd, þone edlǣc gehīerende þe þurh metelbuccas hringþ. Sēo racenteag on grīne slītt frēo mid ānre geleaffullre wendunge. Þēos ēa ne hātt, ac hēo wacaþ. Hire brād glīseþ, þā dēopnesse undernīþan hȳdende, and se īs ne recþ hwæþer fēt lataþ oþþe stæppaþ. Þā tūnware strengiaþ flate and bellan ofer heora durum, lāfe ealdra spona and þegnforca, weard wiþ þæt þe hīe mǣst ondrǣdaþ, nā þone Dēofol, ac swīge and stilnesse.
Spell of cēapceastre: cēapmenn bǣron ǣr cynn geþrungen mid ansīenum fordwinendra cyninga, ælcne muntfæreld nīwe gemearcode. On heora pūsum gemengdon ealde discas wiþ þā nīwan, gemynd and willa ætgædere. Hīe wrixledon þās wiþ sealt, wiþ hlāf, wiþ gewritu færeldes. On nihte āguton hīe heora spēd on þone bēod, ǣlces cynnes disc hringan lǣtende, swēg gemeten and cōl, trywþ. Sēo spēd mihte bēon genumen oþþe forlǣten, ac se swēg self wunode, frēodōm tō dægrēde behātende.
On cycenum healdeþ se cyste tōla eald seax, his ecg mid gearum æpplascræfunge and hlāfsnīþe dimm geworden. Se handfæst is smēþe gewered. Nis hē leng scearp genōh tō derianne, and þēah biþ hē gehealden tō frōfre, tō gemynde. Nēah, tēapott mid gebēatum hlide, blæcernlēoht speglende, dǣlþ þone bēam wiþ bolle þe man brūcþ tō weorpenne cynn tō dēmenne lȳtle þing. Hwā nimeþ þā cuppan, his hand on þǣm gebigedum edlǣce cwacian sceawaþ, and hīe nyþer sett. Sēo racenteag wunaþ on, ac swā lēase þæt hēo mǣst mid ǣlcre styrunge offealþ.
Ūte gaderiaþ wolcn on æfenlēohte. Hīe ne þrēataþ storm, ac settaþ līþe, on swīge bewrogene þe hrōfas and bære bōgas wrēahþ. Se lyft is geǣled, swā se grund tācnes bīdeþ. Hwǣr hwǣr sliehþ blǣd cimbalas of ealdum tēasponum geworhte, sang singende þe nis ful geomor. Þæt weder nis nā grimm nā smylte, ac healdeþ his oruþ swā bīdigende þæt sum dōm bēo gedōn. Se sceadu on þǣm þerscwolde nis āflīemed, ac of frōfre āgenres duru gesewen.
Tōdæg mæg ǣnig þone bæþscēawere clǣnsian and gesēon hwylce sōþa ungesprecene wuniaþ, oþþe wiþ ēaofre gān and gehīeran hwæt under þǣre gefrorenan rinde styreþ. Mann mæg dēorne seax clǣnsian and tīd gemyndgian þonne hē mā þonne gemynd þēowode, oþþe handfulle gehealdenra cynna on þǣm bēodbrāde hringan lǣtan, heora drēam þā unāscode frignesse settan lǣtende.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Seolfor.
Lucky Color: Silver — #C0C0C0Stande, and stæpe forþ ofer þone bīdigendan boga.