On onwendum wyrtūne þǣre Cwēne ālǣtaþ rihta rǣwa wyrta and hwǣtes nū wildre tōgānre windunge. Nāht biþ besniten, nāht gegaderod. Se lætt sāgþ under hefignesse oferrīpra hwerhwettan, and heora wīnbōgas cnottiaþ þurh þā bred. Wæstm þæs wyrtūnes fealleþ ungesewen, and brosnaþ on þone hnescan molde, and se ealda cornbinn sitt dumb be þām hege, his timber gāniende þær bred sind gescruncen and geworpen. On æfternes stilnesse is sēo stilnes þicce, tōbrocen ān mid hefigum crēace þæs swinges þe of ræfterbēame hangode, his setl rūhlīce āfeormod, ādeorcod mid gēarum rēnes and īdelra handa.
On ānre tīde worhton swilce bēamas, of trēowum on heortan þæs wudes gehēawene, bān ǣgþer berenes and hāmes. Hēafodtimbreras wurþodon heora þicnesse and fæstnesse, and worhton ǣlce lengu mid adesan oþ se brerd scān mid mearce gewinnes. On cealdum mōnþum gaderodon hīredas ymb bēodas of þissum ilcum stoccum gesceapene, se brerd gegrāpod mid þrycce discena and mid āgote beores. Se wudu, gesniden and geseasonod, hēold gemynd sumeres storma and stilnesse wintres, and þā cnottas and þā wunda sprǣcon be stormum geþolodum and helme gegiefenum. Ac nū sāgaþ þā ræftras and duru hangaþ unemne, weorc care unbegīmen þā hwīle þe tīda hwerfaþ.
Þā spell þe on beorgtūnum sind geboden secgaþ be tīde þā þā ǣrestan hūs rison, geworht of strangum stoccum þe on lāmigum wegum on oxanslēdum wǣron niþer getogene. Swilc timber, gecoren for his strengu, bewerede þone hīred wiþ bitendum winde and niþerweardum wolcnum. Þonne tīda hlēane wǣron, dyde se cycenbenc weorc ǣgþer weorcbēodes and weofodes, and bær wǣg melusacca and þæs dæghwāmlīcan hlāfes, his brerd geswenct mid seaxe and mid ceorfe. On þām hlēanum gēarum heoldon bērelas of þām ilcan wuda bēana, lentena, and hyht. Ac þonne wela þǣre Cwēne biþ gymeleas, standaþ þās fæt æmtige, and þā fæstan hringas slīdaþ slace þā hwīle þe se lyft hefig and wǣt weaxeþ.
Ūte wendeþ se weder. Drȳge wind færeþ þurh þæt forlætne scypene, and hrīst þā wuduspōnas þe þone flōr bestōwaþ. Se weorcbenc, his hyrnas gesinwealcode mid gēarum, is stillu. Se beater and se wecg, tōl wendunge, restaþ þær hīe ytemest wǣron āset. Se ealda hlāfbrerd hlinaþ wiþ þone wāg, his brerd gemearcod mid hundum stillra æfenna, bīdigende þrycc cnedendra handa. On stilnesse bīdaþ bān þæs hāmes, durutimbru, stōlas, brerd þæs pyttbuccettes, ealle edniwunge, and heora spell sind geyld.
Þær sind smale dǣda þe magon onginnan þā tīd tō wendenne. Mann mæg þā wuduspōnas gaderian and hīe settan swā onǣl under þām heorþe, and wærmþe eft intō þām hūse loccian. Ōþer mæg þā īsenen bend ymb þone cornbinn fæstnian, and hine gearwian tō genyhte þe gȳt tō cumanne is. Þā æmtigan bērelas magon bēon clǣne āwīpode and ūpwearde neah þǣre duru gesette, tācn gearunesse tō rīpe. Gif þū hand lǣtst gān be þām ealdan hlāfbrerde, and þā rūhnesse āfeormast, þonne gemanst þū swæcc gedǣledes hlāfes and þæt behāt þæt se bēod nǣfre sōþlīce forlǣten biþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Trēowbrūn.
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