Cnappsæcc on stæfe, weg geondbestōwen mid blēdum and crumum, ecge weges forgieten and healf gebrocen mid ilum wōrienda. Hund þǣre carte hnapþ æt unwariendum ancleowum, teohende tō þām uncūþan, þā hwīle þe þæt clif under slācum fōte dimmaþ. Ofer gaderiaþ wolcnu, nā swā swīþe on warnunge swā on wundrunge, waciende tō gesēonne hwær wildnes landeþ þonne hēo hlēapeþ ǣr se grund sīe gefunden. Se lyft is unrōt, hwerfung tīda betwēonan sāwunge and ǣrestum wæstme.
Wæs tīd þā fērende on þām Andesbeorgum, sēcende fēdunge, cōmon on wīnbōgas þe þone grund mid smalum scīnendum sinwealtum wundon. Þās sinwealtan wǣron smēþe, nā berig ne corn, and landæcerceorlas cūþon hīe wel, heora flǣsc cūþ dǣl dæghwāmlīcra briwa. Þonne scipu ofer þone Atlantic fōron, wurdon þās wæstmas sǣd on pūsum, tācn nīwra anginna, hwīlum mid wēnun gemēted, hwīlum geseted on cycenwyrtūnum ān tō gesēonne hwæt geweorþan wolde. On Italie wacodon cōcas hīe rīpan on ēagþȳrelsyllum, ǣrest ungewisse, siþþan glade mid heora swæcce, smæccende frēcennes and hyht ætgædere gebriwed. Cycena wendon. Ānfeald hlāf rǣhte furþor mid hlædle sēawes. Se hlēap of ealdre worulde tō nīwre worulde forlēt lāst mēla, ǣrest ungewisra, siþþan nȳdþearflīcra.
Ēac nū wunaþ þæt gemynd on ǣlcre cȳpeciste and on bæctūnes sticce þær þās wyrt weaxaþ. Wyrtruman sittaþ þēah þā windas. Heora stelan wōriaþ, windende þurh īsenenum cægum, nǣfre ful ūpwearde ac ā rǣcende. Þā smalostan gefōþ on handlocan, scīnende and fæste, and ōþre āweegaþ þā wīnbōgas, hefige swā behāt. Þonne stormas ofer þā feldas wælcaþ, bīgaþ þās wyrt, lēaf slīce on þām rēne, ac se wæstm hangode on, swelliende under wærmþe þæs stormes. Hwīlum berēafaþ hagol þā bōgas, and hwīlum cymþ smylte sunne nū on tīd tō swētienne þā hȳd.
On morgenum cȳpinga standaþ cista fulle neah þām bæcerhūse and þām fiscȳpan. Handa rǣcaþ tō þām cūþan wǣge, þryccende genōg tō cunnienne fæstnesse. Sume wælcaþ on bencbrerdas, bīdigende tō snīþenne tō snidmētum oþþe tō sēoþenne on crocc. On cycenum slīdaþ seax þurh hȳd and flǣsc, sǣd tōstencende geond snīþbred, gemēned tō sūþe oþþe tō sēawe oþþe tō hrædum grēnmēte. Hwīlum biþ se wæstm eall on panne geworpen, tōberstende on þǣre hǣte, lȳtel hlēap on wendunge. On lætsumerum æfennum dǣlaþ nēahgebūras windlas ofer nīedrum hegum, gifu tō gewunan genumen oþ þā wīnbōgas on hærfeste forweorþaþ.
Tōdæg nis lēohtnes on heofone ac on handa, full þæs þe neah þām grunde weaxeþ. Se tīma ǣr þām hryre is ācsung, yld betwēonan pluccunge and smæcce. Ēaþe is þā sceawunge tō oferhlēapenne, handful on middægmēl tō weorpenne būtan þweale, tō trūwienne þæt þæt þe of eorþan cymþ fēde būtan wane. Hwīlum is se stæpe tō hræd, þæt flǣsc unrīpe oþþe oferrīpe, ac hit fēdeþ þēah, forgiefende misstæpe. Hit bitt nāht būtan geþyld and willan eft tō cunnienne, tō smæcceanne ǣr dōme, tō settanne ān sǣd mā on ungewissum molde.
Þū meaht þone wæstm þwean and hine ealne etan ǣr þū tō weorce fare, oþþe hine þicce snīþan tō snidmēte þe þīne handa besmiteþ, oþþe hine on sēaw sēoþan þā hwīle þe se rēn þone hrōf dynþ. Þū meaht þā sǣd healdan, hīe þryccan on crocc mid lȳtlum wætere, and þē selfum wyrtūn on þām niehstan lenctene behātan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Berrēad.
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