Hwǣte hnigaþ on þǣre sunnan, hēafodhefig and gearo tō þǣre sīcle. Se wyrtūn streceþ hine under heofone þe behāt ǣgþer wærmþe and rēn, and sēo Cwēn sitt betwēonan hire rōsum, hire setl of trēowe ceorfen and mid gebregdenre matte gelīþod. Ymb hīe bīgaþ wæstmtrēow mid perum and plūmum, and būtan þām nīedran stānwealle slīdeþ wæterhryre ofer mēosigum stānum, and fealleþ on pōl þær dracanflēogan hwearfiaþ. Sēo eorþe is full, and hēo up āgiefþ þæt þe hēo worhte. Þā tācn ne sind dīegol. Genyht is ǣghwær, gewefen on stelum and þornum and on þām pulsum wæteres on stāne.
On þām feldum hwispriaþ þā ūteran hulas þæs māises on þām winde, and þā smyltan þrǣdas þe æt ǣlces ēares ende gaderiaþ scīmaþ on þām æfternmēle. Þās þrǣdas, hnesce ac strange, slīdaþ þurh fingras æt þām rīpe, and windaþ on langum windlum, and healdaþ gemynd sunnanlēohtes. Eald gelēafa, boren of ēadæle tō wīdum felde, sægþ þæt menn magon þās þrǣdas twīnan tō dolum þe þone bern healdaþ, and þæt gehealden corn þurh winter beweriaþ. On sumum tūnum lēton menn hwīlum þās þrǣdas on smalum byrþenum æt durum æfter þām rīpmōnan, gewilnung sicernesse and gēares fullra cysta.
Sēo Cwēn cānn þās wīsan, and heora stille edlǣcung swēgeþ mid hwerfunge þāra tīda. Wīf on cycenum lǣtaþ handa gān ofer geflætenum mattum of fībrum þe on þām rīpe wǣron gegaderod. Hīe settaþ hēapas hlāfa, gȳt swēte of þām ofne, on þā mattan, and se hlāf self is besprenged mid þām smalum þrǣdum þe þone feld eft clipiaþ. On symbeldagum sendaþ menn cild tō gaderienne þā sīdan of þæs wyrtūnes gemærum, tō bindeanne on bogan tō symbelhættum, oþþe tō bregdenne neah candela grund þe for forgengum sind onǣled. Elles beran farende cȳpmenn pūsan mid þissum hnescan andweorce gefōdrade, and gelȳfaþ þæt hit þā dēorwierþan croccas and þā gehealdenan þing wiþ þæs weges hrisunge friþie.
Neah ēam, þær se lyft þicceþ mid midsumeres hǣte, standaþ ealle mægen þæs māises swā hēah swā mann, and heora ēaran sind bewundene on hula and gecrȳnde mid þissum līþan fnæde. On folcspelle cwǣdon menn þæt se weder bære swæcc þāra felda intō þām hāme, ealles æfter morgenrēne þonne se lyft wæs fersc and þæt lēoht ǣlcne þrǣd gefēng. Ealdmōdor mihte windel þissa þrǣda settan be þām hwer, and hīe brūcan tō bindenne wyrtbyrþena, oþþe tō fōdrianne grundes pyges fæteles, þæt sēo crūst ne clifode. Gemynd genihtes is gehealden on þissum smalum dǣdum, ēac swā on þām hlāfum and þām croccum þe tō wintra sind gesette.
Þām þe tōdæg mid þǣre Cwēne sitt, mæg lȳtel þing bēon þæt hē oþþe hēo wyrtūn oþþe cȳpinge sēce and þā þrǣdas æt māisēara heafdum scēawie, and hīe hrīne swā mann dēorwierþe and cwic þing hrīnþ. Hit mæg bēon swā ānfeald swā þæt þū setst geflætene matte on bēod ǣr mēle, oþþe healdest fēawa strenga tō bindenne ymb crocc gehealdenra þinga, gemynd fullnesse þǣre tīde. Þū meaht lȳtelne dol oþþe gleng of þissum þrǣdum wefan, and hine frēonde geoffrian oþþe on ēagþȳrelsyll settan þær se morgenlēoht hine fint. Ǣlc þissa dǣda gaderaþ lȳtel þǣre worulde genihtes, and dēþ hit grāpbære þām dæge þe tōweard is.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣtegeolu.
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