Se cynestōl stent unāstyred on sunnanlēohtum rūme, his hēaha hrycg mid feþerfiþerum and lēonhēafdum gegræfen, ac se þe hine bebodian sceolde is æfwæard. Ān endebyrdnes wunaþ, se nēata endebyrdnes marmarflāna, þā īsenlīnan ēagþyrlhaga, se gestefneda līnclāþ ofer earmstōle āhōfen, gæste bīdigende þe ne cymþ. Miht hæfþ hire mearca on steore ānum forlǣten: sēo nēate fealdung linclāþes, se cnylle hēla ofer gang, þā gēarlīcan gewritu mid seolcþrǣde gebundene and on fulfremedum rǣwum on bēame gesette. Se rūm orþaþ gemynd anwealdes, and þēah is wærmþe his andweardnesse fordwinod, stearcne regole on hire stōwe forlǣtende.
Begeondan ēagþyrlum tōmelsaþ þǣre ceastre hrōfas under heofone þe mid smǣlre wǣge hangþ, tācn wendunge tīda. Morgen æfter rēnstorme āwaciaþ rēcþyrl mid heora āgnum tācnum, se smǣla smīc þe rīseþ þonne bæcere þone ǣrestan ofen onǣlþ, þonne smiþ þā smiþþan ontendeþ, þonne ealdmōdor þwāg on coporcytle behindan hire hūse hrērþ. On middan peccaþ culfran cruman on ciricstæpum forlǣtene, and smēþe stēam drīfþ of mūþum ǣrrīsendra þā hwīle þe hīe heora hlāfes bīdiaþ. Ǣr, on ǣwum þǣre ealdan worulde, ontundon cumbol tō mearcienne cynehelmes rīcendes, and ealle ēagan wacodon þæs līþan wolcnes þe ūt ēode þonne pāpan rǣd his dōm gefand, tācn þæt hwæt hāliges forþfaren wæs.
On beorgum būtan þǣre ceastre gaderiaþ scēaphierdas ǣr dægrēd, heora handa tō wærmþe gnīdende and heora oruþ sceawigende gemengan wiþ mist þe ofer ēa wrīþeþ. Scēap gærsaþ on lȳtlum bendum, heora hȳd þicce and gewridene of winterstormum. Cytel hwistleþ ofer openum fȳre, his þȳrel mid þynnum clāþe bewrogen tō seofenne ǣlcne unclǣnnesse of wætere. Ǣwa dæghwāmlīces līfes bēoþ gehealden on þissum lȳtlum ǣwum: þrȳst meolucgerunna on muslinclāþe, sprǣdung smēþes cīeses on nīwum snīde hlāfes, þwēal ansīena mid fēowere cotūnclāþes þe Sunnandagum onsundran biþ gehealden. Ǣlc gebǣr is nēat, swā steor self þā woruld tōgædere healdan mihte þonne hīw bebodes fordwinod is.
Binnan hāmum wunaþ mearc endebyrdnesse on carre legerne bēodclāþa ǣr mete and on fealdunge wāga on æfenlēohte. Lēas mearc rīseþ of stēmendre bolle rīses oþþe nīwe gewylledes ǣges. Yldran secgaþ spell feorra landa þǣr slāwe wolcn of sǣ in wealcodon and ofer hyþceastrum sæton, scipu æt ancre hȳdende and strǣta uncūþe dōnde. Se ealda cēapmann on hyrnecēaphūse gemyneþ þā dagas þonne nīwe hlæstas cōmon on þynnum wræþclāþe bewrogene, ǣlc lāgu ofāpeled tō ætīewenne gestrēon, porselen, sīwung, wyrta, gehealdene mid smēþum, clifiendum þrǣdum. Nū wunaþ ān dǣd ontȳnunge, edlǣc ǣwe.
On wedere bringþ se forecwide word daga þonne mist stilne nyþer sīhp, feldas and hegas bewriþende, and ǣlc ymbhwyrft hnescaþ. Cild þrȳccaþ heora handa tō ēagþyrle, þā woruld unhiwed and feorr weorþan sceawigende. Hit is þæt swīge æfter þǣm hlūdostan storme, sēo stilnes ǣr þǣm þe sēo ceaster āstyreþ, sēo līþe wǣge þe æfter onhrērunge sett, nāht behātende būtan gelimpe tō eft onginnanne mid geþylde and care. Swā ēac sitt setl mihtes ǣmtig, ac his endebyrdnessa gāþ forþ, nā mid ānum willan ūp āhafene, ac mid þǣm lǣsestum, wuniendostum dǣdum gymene.
Tōdæg meaht þū þā līnclāþas on dægrēd ūt āwēgan, þīne handclāþas fealdan swā wǣren hīe lāf, oþþe hlāf on clǣnum muslinclāþe wrēon ǣr þonne þū hine mid ōþrum bricst. Þū meaht ābīdan tō sceawienne þone drift ofer rēcþyrle, oþþe gehīeran þone smēþestan hwistle cytles on morgene.
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