Feld þe hwīlum welig wæs mid hwǣte, popigum, and wildre cicorie ligeþ nū gewunden and hefig æfter þām stormum. Þā stānweallas þe rīce þǣre Cwēne mearcodon hlinaþ under hefignesse clīpendra, unbegīmenra wīnbōga, and heora lēaf sind þicce and geþrang, and ādwǣscaþ þæt lēoht niþer. Eald trēow þæs wyrtūnes, hwīlum hladen mid rīpendum wæstme, dropiaþ nū forscruncene elewæstmas on lēaf gēares þe ǣr wæs, forlǣtene tō sūrenne þær hīe feallaþ. Wyrtūn þǣre Cwēne nis æmtig, ac his gifa ne cumaþ lēng frēolīce tō bīdigendum handum.
On þām ealdan lande ymbhringaþ swilce bearwas þā nīedran hlīþ, ǣlc trēow gewunden of tīdum windes, ǣlc wyrttruma þryccende dēope on gemynd þæs moldes. Heora wæstm wæs hwīlum āþrycced tō leohtfætes ele, tō smyringe, tō ānfealdum mēlum. Nū, āþrycced mid gymeleaste, þiccaþ se wæstm and scrincþ, and wunaþ būtan rǣcunge, rīp ungædǣled. Se tūncweorn, þær stānhwēol hwīlum geþyldiglīce hwearfodon, is stillu. On sceade þāra trēowa licgaþ hererēaf ofer stōlum on porticum, gebrocen, āheardod mid brūcunge, swæcc eorþan and wudurēces clīþig on heora sēamum. Hīe sind scrūd þāra þe wuniaþ, þe þone grund mid handum wyrcaþ siþþan þā searu on þām rēne rūstigodon.
Hit is tīd þonne helm, hwīlum wilcuma, mæg tō ofþrysme weorþan. On þǣre cycene sind scylfa þæs cystes gefōdrade mid croccum sealtwæteres, þær elewæstmas flēotaþ, and heora smēþan hȳda sind ādimmode of mōnþum on sealtum wætere. Þās croccas sceoldon swæcc sumeres on winter beran, ac nū sittaþ hīe unontȳnede, and gaderiaþ dūst þā hwīle þe se hungor wanaþ. Blāc lēoht æfternes slīdeþ þurh wāgum, and gefēhþ þā īsenen fæt þe ele gēares þe ǣr wæs wolcnig and þicce weaxeþ. Se bēod is tōstenced mid tōlum healdnesse: trēowen þrȳc, gebrocen snīþseax, hring rāpes tō bindenne bōgas. Nān ne gesihþ micelne brūcunge.
Spell wuniaþ betwēonan þissum tōlum. On langum rēnum gemunaþ yldran þā hlēanan gēar þā cempan þurh þā hlīþ fōron, heora scrūd þæs ilcan hīwes þe þā bearwas, and hīe gemengdon on þæt land. Hīe fōron stille, nēah ungesewene wiþ þone scrōb and þā erode rǣwa, and fordulfon on rēn and on morgenmist. Þæt land self þūhte hīe forswelgan, hīe scildan, oþþe hīe fæste healdan.
Ūte is se lyft wǣt mid behāte tōweardra storma. Þā wegas betwēonan þām trēowum sind hnesce under fōte, þæt gærs þicce and gemætted, and hȳdeþ stānas and healf bebyrgde racan. On þām sceade is se lyft cōl and hefig, and hefignes þæs hrōfes þrycþ niþer. Of feorran þyncþ se wyrtūn hāl, ac neah is ǣlc bōg and ǣlc lēaf geþrang and geþrysmod, and se stede betwēonan is mid weaxunge forstoppod. Hit is stōw gehealden on hangunge, þær genyht is tō ofergrowennesse gecierred, and se wela ne rǣcþ lēng þā handa þe his bīdaþ.
Tōdæg meaht þū þā gefeallenan elewæstmas gaderian, hīe on bolle þwean and hīe ūt settan tō drȳgenne, ēac gif hīe bitere sind. Þū meaht þīne scōs oþþe þīnne sculdorhrægl mid þām þe on þām fæte wunaþ smyrian, and lætan swæcc þæs landes ymb þē rīsan. Þū meaht ēagþȳrel ontȳnan tō lǣtenne þone wǣtan lyft þurh þā cycene gān, and þone flōr swāpan þær sealtwæter drȳgode and his lāst forlēt. Þū meaht fēawa tīda þæt snīþseax hwetan, and þē gearwian tō þǣre tīde þonne se wyrtūn eft riht bēon mæg.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Elefealu.
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