Ān hīw stent æt ecge þæs clifes, byrþen on handa, ēagan on heofone, ungewis þæs stānigan grundes niþer. Se hund æt his hēle clipaþ on warnunge, ac stæpe þæs Wegfarendes hōfaþ on þām lyfte, trūwiende hwæte ungesewenes. Sēo carte, āhworfen, hielt hire orþ æt þām tīman ǣr þām hryre, þonne lēohtnes tō misstæpe wierþ, and behāt þæs færeldes tō frēcennesse bīehþ. Se lyft is þynne hēr, se dweliende fērend oferstīgþ wærcunge, and forlǣt þā sceawunge þe heortan tō eorþan fæstnaþ.
Niþer teemþ woruld mid tācnum þæs þe geweorþeþ þonne mann hlēapeþ ǣr hē lōcie. On Caribiscum ēalandum, hēah on þām hlīþum þær flīemend hwīlum hȳddon, wēoxon setl of flyhte. Þās wǣron stōwa getimbrode mid þām þe of scipum and bendum urnon, þe friþ þæs deorcan wudes befēngon ǣr se weg clǣne wǣre. Tūnas þēah begeondan þām gemetenum lande, heora spell gewefen on þone molde. Sēo frēodōm þe þær wæs gefunden wæs earfoþlīce gewunnen and ungewiss, fæsten on dælum þe nān ōþer ne dorste metan. Heora cycena, gefōdrade mid hefigum, geseasonodum croccum, sēoþodon mid swæcce bēana manige tīda gebriwedra, þicce mid clofum and rēce, mēl geboren þæs þe gegaderod wæs mā þonne þæs þe geþōht wæs.
Elles, on stillum leornunghūsum, ligeþ leþerbunden gewrit unontȳned ofer wrītbēode, his hlid smēþe of handum þe nǣfre ful tō þām weorce sæton. Þā lēaf innan sind blāce, bīdigende fæstes wrītbōges, ac sēo costung is tō onginnenne on midde cwide, tō wrītenne būtan þȳ þe mann wite hwæt ǣr cōm. Æt þām heorþe hielt drȳgracu wullene sweorclāþ, þone cyn gewefenne tō langum færeldum on ungewissum wegum. Hringas and cnottas mearciaþ þā stōwa þær se þrǣd slāc oþþe eft bēag, landbēc misdǣda þe þone sweoran wærmþ þēah hire wōh sind. On wyrtūnum behȳddum behindan stānwagum tōberstaþ æppla þæs grānæpples on þǣre hǣte, sǣd wealciende geond þā stānbricas, nǣfre gemēned tō rihtum rǣwum oþþe carum geþōhtum.
Þær sind dagas þonne se wind færlic wendeþ, berende þone scearpan swæcc rēnes. Se heofon weorþ nīedra, and behæt storm þe mæg forþgān oþþe ofer tōberstan. Þā wīsan belūcaþ ēagþȳrelu and bringaþ tōl inn, ac se Wegfarend, onwend, ēode ūt on þæt weder, earmas wīde, ungemend þæs þunres þe þurh þone dæl wælceþ. Æt sǣ hwearfaþ eald scipes bord, bemeten mid dēopum, sȳferum hīwe, wiþ his fæstnunge, bīdigende þæt se flōd wende. Þær is stǣr on þām timbre, gemearcod mid sealte and mid þǣre sunnan, gelæpped and mid tære besmiten þær hit tōberstan þrēatode. Hwīlum hlēapeþ scipliend tō þām rāpe ǣr se hyþ neah sīe, fēt findende slīce bred and splentas mā þonne friþne grund.
Tōdæg find ealdne crocc and cōca ānne mete of þām þe þū hæfst, and læt þā swæccas on heora āgenum gemete gemengan. Nim sweorclāþ, gebrocenne oþþe nīwne, and bewint hine neah ǣr þū ūt stæppe, trūwiende him þē wearmne tō healdenne on ungefōresceawodum gange. Ongin ærendgewrit oþþe gewritbōces mearc, nā æt anginne ac þær þīn hand rest, and læt þæt spell ontȳnan būtan geþōhte. Gif se weder wende, ontȳn ēagþȳrel genōg tō fōnne þone ǣrestan swæcc rēnes, and belūc hit siþþan and onǣl candel, gemunende þāra þe frēcennesse nāmon þonne se ende ungewiss wæs.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
Lucky Color: Maroon — #800000Hlēap, ac sēc þīn landungstōw.