Stān is stillu, ungēap, his ansīen mid þūsendum dægrēda gesceapen. Se Cāsere sitt on setle of þæs beorges bānum gegræfenum, under hēahum, unāstyredum heofone. Ymbe hine tæmþ gemǣrweall, mid carum handum gemorterod, þā unrōtan eorþan. Ǣlc bloc is cantic gegræfen, ǣlc gefēg mid cræfte gesett. Þis is endebyrdnes worulde: cyning þe ne wōraþ, ac his stōwe clypaþ and hīe wunian dēþ. On foran is þicce wǣg ālǣd, hefig mid fremdum endebyrdnessum, boren fram cēapmannum of feorrum rīcum. Hire þrǣdas sind mid weorce steorfæstra fingra gecnytte, hire brād gemearcod tō sprecanne be landum þǣr ēa drȳge yrnaþ under heardre sunnan.
Ofer þā wǣge is cuppe gewyrtodes wīnes carefullīce on nīþerlīcum bēode gesett. Þæt wīn is of hærfestrīpe, on dēopum celrum geieldod, āgoten hlāforde þæs hūses on fate gehearmedes meteles. Hit fylþ þone lyft mid stence eorþan and wæstmes, behāt endebyrdnesse boren þurh ymbhweorft gēares æfter gēare. Wiþ hit glīseþ boll cornæpples sǣda, ǣlc corn lȳtel, scīnende gemǣre his wǣtan binnan healdende, swā hīe ēac geleornodon heora rihtum mearcum tō fylgenne. Se Cāsere ett mid gemetenum gebǣrum, ǣlc sǣd gebiten and siþþan onsundran gesett, steor his bēodes þone steor his wealla speglende.
Begeondan þǣm hiredum biþ feld mæddrewyrtruma begān fram weorcendum þe heora rǣwum fylgaþ, wēod and wæter æfter ealdum regole. Þās wyrtruman, of þǣre eorþan ātogene, bēoþ gewylde on miclum īsenhwerum on dēagwyrhtena dǣle. Heora stenc flēot þurh þā nīþerlīcan strǣta and ūt ofer þā dic, þǣr hē gemengeþ mid clǣnum smæcce beorglyftes. Se clāþ þe of þæs dēagwyrhtan handum cymþ biþ gewurþod ofer rīcu, gesōht fram cnihtum tō heora cumbolum and fram sacerdum tō heora wēofodwāgum. Ǣr wæs dīegolnes þisses bleohs behindan belocenum durum geheald. Nū is hit mearc mihtes and fæstnesse, cēap þe ceastra bint, þrǣd þe þurh clāþ dōmes and gewunan yrnþ.
On sceadwum þǣre ceastre geates ontȳnþ cēapmann seolcas of þǣm Ēasterweg. Betwux him biþ ræl on bleoh drȳges blōdes gecēapod wiþ cynn and sealt. Hē biþ gesniden and on hrægl gesīwod þǣm rǣde, boren on symbeldagum and þonne cwidu bēoþ gefæstnode. On þæs Cāseres healle hangiaþ þās hrægl gearu on cederocystum, heora fealda stillu gewitnes gegaderodes anwealdes. Ēac under stormwolcnum, þonne se wind þone weallswēor āswēopþ and rēn þone cōlan stān strīcaþ, bēoþ þās hrægl ūt boren. Hīe bēoþ on gedōn tō ǣwum færeldes, tō mearcienne ende geflita, tō belūcenne þæt behāt þæt endebyrdnes healdan sceal.
Ǣnig þe on þæs Cāseres stede gān wile mæg gemearcodne clāþ ofer his bēod ālǣdan and boll cornæpples sǣda nyþer settan. Hē mæg his dæges willan wrītan mid feþere on strangum wīne bedyptre, oþþe mæddrewyrtruman wēpan for his ealdan, eorþlīcan strengþe. Þonne geflit ārīsaþ, mæg hē þā regol recan þe his hīred ā scōpon, and witan þæt ǣlc edlǣc gemǣre is þe þone weg healdeþ.
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