Cynestōl stent on winde āswōpenum beorge, his grundweall of ealdum stāne gegræfen. Ǣr edlǣcdon fōtlāstas on bebode, ac nū crīepþ mēos ofer þā gecnottan earmas and se setl is ǣmtig. Se cynegyrd, ǣr fæste gehealden, ligeþ forlǣten on flāhstānum, his īsenhēafod mid stormum ādīmmod. Þā cumbol þe ǣr ufan flugon sind toslitene geworden, lēase hangende on slǣpendum lyfte. Hēr biþ andgit endebyrdnesse gehealden þurh geendebyrdunge, ac sēo heorte þe ǣr under bēage and byrnan bēat is on hinder gewiten. Regol wuniaþ, on stāne and on āþe gegræfene, ac andgit is ūtsīped, ān timber anwealdes forlǣtende.
Nā feorr fram þǣm cynestōle wundþ flāhstāngraf þā sīdan. Menn ceorfon and bǣron ǣr, ritm heora hearma ūt hringende swā ūtālǣd dōmes. Nū wunaþ ān gemynd weorces. Rēn gaderaþ on snīþum and græfum, stilne polas wyrcende. Mūlwænas, heora eaxla gerūstode and hwēol healfbebyrgode, restaþ on sceadwe flānhwalla. Crāwe sitt on forgietenum weorcendhætte, on þone pytt lōciende swā sēcende þā hand þe hine ǣr bær. Ecga þæs grafes dīestraþ on bearwe īwtrēowa, heora gewridenan stoccas þæt gemǣre betwux steore and brosnunge gripende.
On nīþerlandum stent smiþþe belocen. Se ofen is cōl. Se anfilt, ǣr tōl gewealdes, drincþ nū stilnesse æfwæardnesse. Ān ecg, hire ord nā hwett nā ādīmmud, resteþ ofer wudubēode. Wiþ hīe wrīt gerīmbōc nēate mētunga and rǣw tōla, ǣlc þing mid care gemearcod. Dūst is on þā tramas geseten, þā līnan līþigende ac þæt gerīm nā ādilegende. Steor weges wunaþ, ēac þonne se cræftmann ne cyrþ.
Stormwolcn gaderiaþ ofer feorrum hrycgum, þæt lēoht dēafiende. Se lyft healdeþ smæcc nēalǣcendes rēnes, metellīcne and cōlne. Se wind þringþ wiþ þæt land, ymbhwyrftas beres stānes and ǣmtigra ūtgetimbra traciende. On ealdum ceastrum þringaþ hrōfas oferlæcgendes stānes fæste tō him selfum, þone smēþan rēn wīgende. Lanu glisiaþ, heora pol ǣmtige ēagþyrlsylla speglende þǣr, on ōþerre tīde, croccas rōsmārīnes mihton standan. Bellan hringaþ on cirictorre, heora swēg nīþerlīc and hefig þurh þone wætan boren, þone gehȳrendan gemyndigende timbres þe mǣst mid behāte and gewunan biþ gehealden.
Æt heorþe sitt īsen cytel on þrīfēt, and langhandfæst fȳrsticca hlinaþ wiþ þā tigelas. Þās þing wuniaþ on heora stōwum, eftcymes handa bīdigende tō hrērenne, tō begānne, tō onǣlenne wærmþe. On cyste bīdeþ mortere of ēastāne gegræfen, his brād smēþe gewered mid cneorissum, sǣdum oþþe sealte tō mētenne his willan. Ǣlc tōl, ǣlc fæt, healdeþ gemynd brūces, ac nū þēowiaþ hīe swā tācn þæt nytt oferlīfan mæg þone hrīning þe him endebyrdnesse giefþ.
Tō būgenne þisne rūm tōdæg mæg man gān on mōre æfter rēne, paþas stāngrafmanna tredende, scōs lēase flānas under gorste screpende. Þū meaht wiþ cōlum heorþe sittan and cytel on his stede settan, þæt swīge gehīerende þǣr fȳr ǣr cracode. Þū meaht tramas gerīmbōce oþþe gerīmes wendan, rǣw ōþres traciende, and þīne āgene līne under mearcian. Oþþe cēos stilne tō sittanne nēah ēagþyrle þā hwīle þe stormwolcn in drīfaþ, anrǣdnesse worulde genōg lǣtende.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc stāngræg.
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