Se Hangenda hangþ be ānum anclēowe, hēafod niþer, betweox woruldum, āhafen on stillre wundrunge oþþe on wīte. Sēo ymbcerrede carte tīehþ þā rāpas. Hēr wrīþ se wer tō tōbrecenne oþþe gǣþ slæc on wiþsæcunge, and misseþ þæt andgiet on þǣre reste. Þæt tācn is wegagelǣte, ac se wegfarend wiþsæcþ tō restenne, tō sēonne þā gesihþe of þām uncūþan ecge, oþþe tō lǣtenne þā swīge fyllan þā lungena. Sēo woruld ymbe hine nis nā morgen ne æfenglōm, ac sēo tīd ungewissnesse, þonne nāht fullīce gǣþ forþ oþþe on bæc.
Þis is sēo tīd on norþerre strǣte þonne mist þiccaþ, and hwierfþ cūþe gebyldu tō sceadwum. Hrōfas forlēosaþ heora scearpan līnan. Ciricstīpelas and smiþþscoras dwīnaþ on þone ilcan healfgesewenan bræd, swā gemynd on ecge ofergitunge. Heorþscoras, ungebrocene siþþan middre hǣtunge, standaþ weard ofer īdlum wyrtūnum. Ofer hīe is se heofon on blēo ealdra tīnmynta, smēþe gehandloda fram cneorissum handa. Neoþan sind þā strǣtstānas slipige of ǣrran nihtes regne, and scōilas slīdaþ būton man steppige mid gīemene.
Þǣr sind stōwa on þǣre worulde ātogene on þissum āsmoredum blēom, ūtstōwa and wegstōwa þǣr styrenes stent, ac sēo nīed þǣre anbīdunge is unswutol. Wæterdictūnas þāra Nīederlanda on latum hærfeste, þǣr bargas sittaþ gebundene and unstyriende, þæt wæter scīnende brerd īsenes. Oþþe ecg þæs mōres æt ende rīpes, þonne sēo hǣþ is blācod and āna gewederode hegestacan mearciaþ þone pæþ. On þissum stōwum felþ se wegfarend swīge, and þēah felþ þone gyrn tō scūfanne forþ, unmagende tō gehīeranne cīg stilnesse.
Innan þām hūse gaderiaþ þing þe gehȳraþ þissum betwuxgange. Eald heorþīsern, ungebrocen ac ā binnan rǣce, ligeþ ofer þām heorþe. His handle is smēþe gewered mid gēartīenum gīemene, ac þā glēda þe hē ǣr hrȳrde sind lange cealde. Se roc hangiende on þām ingange is geworht of rūhre wulle, þām cynne þe hielt ūt þone ciele and geman ǣlcne dropan regnes and dūst þæs weges. Nēah þǣre bæcduru sind weorchēahscōs āline, nǣfre fullīce clǣne, ecgede mid fūle felda and burhstrǣta. On þǣre cycene sit īsenpanne on þām ofne, anbīdende brūces, hire brerd gesealfod fram hundum stillra mēla.
On þissum gesihþum mǣnþ wiþsæcung tō standenne þæt rest biþ forwyrned, and þæt mōd tredeþ cūþe pæþas eft and eft. Tō findanne þæt andgiet on þǣre anbīdunge mæg man gān ūt þā hwīle þe se dæg gǣþ on mist, and lǣtan þā swīge dēopian. Oþþe sittan be þām ēagþyrle mid gebēatodre bōce, and gehīeran þā swīge begeondan þām glæse. Man mæg āhebban þæt heorþīsern, nā tō begymenne glēda, ac tō gemynde þæt ēac ungebrocene tōl healdaþ spell. Gang be ecge wæterdices, ēac on dropunge, mæg geweorþan lār geþylde, tō underfōnne þā worulde swā hēo is þonne forþgang stent.
Stilnes hæfþ hrōf, hefignes, and ēac āgen blēo. Þēawas þæs smiþes and þæs sǣlidan, þæs scōhwyrhtan and þæs wæterdicwyrhtan, sind āwyllede on þisse āsmoredan tīde betweox. Se Hangenda on þǣre ymbcerredan sīdan āscaþ, meaht þū ālecgan þone willan tō styrenne, and wunian þā anbīdunge. Ēac sēo ēa, on hire slāwostan tīde, scīnþ þæt stille gewinn anbīdunge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Anbīd under þiccum heofone, and læt þæs dæges swīge bēon þīn latteow.