On worulde þǣre carte is ān wer gehafed on midde styrenesse, fēt gewridene ufan, handa lēase æt sīdum. Sēo anbīdung þe scolde gelaþian nīwe gesihþe is forsacen. For andgiete strainþ se līchama wiþ þone rāp, bifigende tō gānne forþ. Ūtan þǣre carte edwist þēos wiþsæcung on þǣre anbīdunge ǣr regne, þonne se heofon yld, wolcnu þryccede nīþer and hefige, healdende heora byrþenne tō lange ǣr þām storme. Hit is gefēlnes byrig æt ǣrdæge on latum Blōtmōnaþe, þonne sēo woruld hōfaþ betweox nihtes swīge and þæs dæges nīedum, strǣta restende under brāde mistes þe hnesceþ ǣlcne ecg.
On morgenum swilcum gemunaþ stānweallas gēar anbīdunge, ǣlc clūd āhēapod ofer ōþerne fram stānwyrhtum þe ongēaton cræft tō healdanne hefignes. Heora weorc wunaþ on oferslegum ofer cealdum heorþum and on gescyldum hyrnum behindan heorþscorum, standende þurh tīda þe hweorfaþ and nǣfre ne brecaþ ūp. Ciricstīpelas, īsenbrycga, and þā ealdan mīlgemearc æt weges ecge dǣlaþ ealle þās geþyld, heora brerdas gerūhode ac nā āwerede, healdende fæste þonne styrenes þyncþ unmihtiglīc oþþe unwīs.
Æt forman sōþan reste wintres sprǣt ragu stille ofer sciferhrōfum and drȳgum stānhegum. Hēo þēahþ þǣr sunnanlēoht blīnaþ, þurhwunigende andweardnes on slāwum stōwum þǣre worulde. On norþernum wudum nimaþ stoccas bōca and rind elebēama gelīcne rūh, and þēoþ þǣr wǣta wunaþ and lyft hangþ unstyriende. Ēac sēo sǣ, þonne hēo is windleas, setlaþ tō scēate stilles wæteres besprengdum mid hrycgum feorra seolha, and giefþ āna þone lēasestan ȳþ. Wegfarende on ferescipum standaþ æt þām ræge, and starigaþ on þone smyltan, unmagende tō findanne styrenesse oþþe āwendinge.
Hāmlīf, ēac, hæfþ þās āhafenan stōwa. Se īsenna cytel forlǣten on þām ofne æfter þām þe se tēa is gecōlod, se bolla ēastāna gegaderod of cildhādaburnan and gesett on borde, sēo wullene sculdorhwītel geweorpen ofer stole æt sunnansetle. Ǣlc is tācn sumes þinges gehafedes on tīde, nā forlǣten ne on styrenesse gesett. Þǣr is cynn anbīdunge on þissum þingum, līþe þurhwunung tō wunienne, þe wiþstent þām willan tō rǣsenne forþ oþþe tō ādlēogienne þæt þe wæs.
Cēapmenn wurþodon ǣr þā ēadmōdan strǣtstānas ātogene of ēabeddum, and lufodon heora fæstnesse under hweolum cræta. On bæcrūmum prentstōwa anbīdaþ ealde lēadene stafas on windlum, gearwe tō spellienne sagu, heora hefignes weall wiþ handa þe willaþ ofestian. Sēameras bētaþ þā ilcan oferhrægl ǣlc gēar, and sēowaþ þā geweredan elmbogan mid twīne on blēo regnwǣtre strǣte, and bētaþ þæt þe þurhwunaþ þurh yldinge.
Þonne sēo hwīl cymþ tō underfōnne genīedde stilnesse, mæg man findan frōfor on glisnunge sciferstāna þe līniaþ þæt cycenēagþyrel, oþþe on wendunge trāmetta geweredre bōce gebundendre on līne, stæf be stæfe. Sēo dǣd tō þwēanne þone smēþan mortere and þā stampan æfter mete, oþþe tō ūtgangenne tō gānne under heofone þryccedum nīþer fram wolcne, bringþ þæt mōd tō reste mid þām þe is, mā þonne mid þām þe mihte bēon. Lȳtle dǣda, stille and rædfæste, wilcumaþ þā anbīdunge and lǣtaþ hīe sprecan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Græg.
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