Se Wegfarend stent on þǣre ecge, ān fōt on lyfte, se niehsta stæpe nā gȳt gecoren ne gesewen. Þær is andgit lēohtnesse, heorte ūp āhafen mid þām þe bēon mæg, ac hēr, onwend, mæg sēo ūpāhefednes on rēcelēasnesse drīfan. Se hlēap cymþ ǣr þǣre sceawunge, and se hyhtfulla wōriend frēcnaþ þā fæstnesse under tō misienne. Se grund is getimbrod on trēowe ānum, sēo woruld niþer geþæcu frēcennessa and unmætenra gelimpa bīdigende tō cunnienne.
On ealdum tūnum rison hām and ofnas of styccum mid handum gesceapenum and onbærnedum tō wuniendre heardnesse. Þās tigolas, rūge and andweorcfulle, worhton bān cycena and heorþa, þā ūterran wagas þe scearpne lyft wintres wiþheoldon. Þonne þā windas beoton and þā dagas sceorte wurdon, þrycton hīredas neah þā wærmþe þe of ofnum gefōdradum mid þām ilcum wuniendum styccum rād. Þæt fȳr innan plegode, gescild mid carre hēapunge and geþyldigum weorce, ǣlc stycce gelegd mid gelēafan þæt hīe ætgædere wiþ þone storm heoldon.
Under þām oferslegum, on cȳpelānum, hēapodon wyrcendas rǣwa þissa stycca, gewitnes gewinnes manigra tīda. Windlas drīgra pipora and endehærfestes wæstmes reston on stānum geborgodum of ofercyme þāra ofna, heora hȳda gemearcode mid þǣre ilcan sunnan and hǣte þe þā tigolas belēac. Ǣr morgenmist drāf betwēonan þām rǣwum, dimmende þā scearpan ymbas ac nā þone fæstan wǣg under. On þām bæcerhūse geaf innoþ þæs ofnes, gefōdrad mid hǣte geþolodum stāne, hlāfas mid crustum þe geseasonodes clāmes gemyndedon, strange and fæste, geworhte tō ungewissum færeldum.
Neah þām ēaōfre stōdon þā ofnas eaxl wiþ eaxle, heora hīw gelīþod mid miste rīsendes rēces. Þær tēahon croccwyrhtan and tigolwyrhtan styccu of þām glēdum, and cunnedon ǣlc tō cinum oþþe tō worpunge, witende þæt nā ǣlc stycce cwalu þæs fȳres þolaþ. Ǣlc tigol, gecōlod and gehēapod, getācnode hlēap trēowe. Eorþe gewend, hīw gegiefen mid fȳre and gehealden mid hyhte þæt hit on māran fāgnesse gefēge, unbrocen.
Fērende fundon hīe selfe hwīlum gefangene on hrædum, blāwendum stormum be cēapwegum, wind drīfende rēn and dūst wiþ strange wagas wegstōwa. Þā styccu stōdon fæste, rēc windende of scēatum þā hwīle þe fȳr innan mid clofenum wuda wǣron gefēded, weorpende glēam þe gemengde mid swæcce brǣddra wyrttruma and þicces briwes. Ūte arn sēo woruld wild. Innan þolode se helm, tōl and fata ālang þām heorþbrerde, hwer, fȳrīsen mid þiccum hilte, stænfæt crocc, ealle stille gemynd þæs þe þone hlēap þolaþ.
Þonne þū gefrēdest þē selfne stæppan on þæt uncūþe, ǣr se grund gewis sīe, meaht þū mæcce sleān and sceawian þone līg fōn on ofne oþþe heorþe, and gemunan fæstnesse onbærnedes clāmes. Tigol, tigel, oþþe smæl eorþfæt on þīnre ēagþȳrelsylle oþþe scylfe tō settanne mæg gemynd geofian þæs þe hielt æfter fȳre and wendunge. Gā lāne ymbset mid ealdum tigolwagum, spyr þā rǣwa mid þīnum fingrum and rīm ǣlcne swā tēcen frēcennessa þe landodon. Oþþe wrīt mearc sumum æt anginne his āgenes hlēapes, and geof onbryrdnesse gesceapene mid geþylde and mid behāte friþes hāmcyme.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Fȳrrēad.
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