Ān wer hangþ, ac nā on gewinne. His fōt is gefangen on bōge strangres trēowes, wyrttruman dēope on wǣtre eorþan, eald and cwic. Hē swingþ hēafod niþer, earmas behindan him, and smylte lēohtbēag ymbhweorfeþ his brūwe. Hē lōcaþ on þā worulde ymbhwyrfede, se grund ufan, se heofon neoþan, ǣlc ǣþm unofsted. Stilnes weaxeþ þicce ymbe hine, ac of þissum uncūþan stede wierþ þæt cūþe dēagol. Þæt þe ǣr wæs sweotol openaþ nū stille, swā hit sīe hrinen mid morgenmiste.
Elles, on sǣinlate feorr fram mænige, slīdeþ se flōd on bæc and ætīewþ hēapas stāna, healfbedolfen sǣdiscas, and bedd sǣwārodes bifiende on þām scealdan wætere. Þēos stōw is genemned for hire gestrēone, þām meregrēnan stāne, fiscod of ēabeddum niþer of beorgsnāwes þawe. On ealdum dagum wāgdon delfend heora lungena and handa tō āhebbenne þās beryllas of eorþan, and getrīewdon þæt heora þurhsīene glisn brohte beorhtnesse þām þe hīe bǣron. Cēapmenn ālegdon hīe on fellclāþum, ǣlc gimm cōl tō hrine, and drōgon þā līne betweox þām gehȳddan and þām ætīewdan.
On þǣre cycene anbīdeþ sum man on middan his dæge, and hielt glæsdisc hām gebroht of sǣtūne. Hē is hefig, þiccrifed, handblāwen, gemearcod mid ȳþum swā wind on wætere. Þonne man hine þwiehþ on þām wilian, fēhþ hē þā forman sunnanlēoman Ēastermōnaþes, and tōsprǣt blāce, bifigende hīw ofer þone bēod. Þis glæsfæt wæs gescypen ofer openum lēge fram cræftigum handum geþyldigum swā flōdas, and of handa tō handa giefen þurh cneorissa of stōwe þǣr ēa mēt sǣ. Tō brūcenne hit is tō slāwianne, tō gīemenne þā hwīle, tō lǣtenne þæt gewunelice geweorþan scearpe þurh wendunge gymene.
Wegfarend þe færþ ofer hēanessa Carpatas geman þā ealdan spell þæt meregrēne stānas wǣron borene fram sǣlidum for gesundum fære. Beorgburnan hēr sind gefrætwode mid mēose and ragu, þā hwīle þe se heofon ufan þēaþ lenctenscūras. Þonne se regn fielþ, þonne dēþ hē þæt līþe, and tīehþ wāh ofer þæt landscip, and þā hlīþ sind strīcode mid gemynde ealdra wætera. Hierdas on filtmentelum gāþ under ofese and anbīdaþ, and gehīeraþ þā swīge þe fylgþ þām storme. Hit is stilnes, ac sēo woruld ne slǣpþ. Hweorfung biþ swīgende, on swīge, wyrttruman dēopiende on þām wǣtan grunde.
Æt hām sett wyrtweard lȳtle iadewyrt be þām ēagþyrle, hire þicce lēaf fōþ þæt lēoht. On stillre hwīle wunaþ sum man ofer bollan swētes, rīpes hunigmelwes, gecōlod of īsfeate, and smæcþ ǣlcne cōlne bite. On gewederodum portice bēteþ eald fiscere his nett, and geman blēo þǣre sǣ on sweotolum dæge þonne þæt wæter þyncþ hangian betweox heofone and þǣre worulde neoþan, nā ōþer ne ōþer, smylte and āhafen.
Tōdæg mæg man anbīdan tō þwēanne handa on cealdum wætere, and felan beorhtnesse þǣre hwīle. Hē mæg clǣnsian lēofne glæsdisc, and drȳgan hine on þǣre sunnan tō wacienne hine fōn þæs dæges lēoht. Hē mæg standan þā hwīle þe hē gǣþ nēah burnan, and gehīeran þone smalan ryne and gīeman þæt þe rest under þām brerde. Oþþe hē mæg ānlīce wendan ān þing hēafod niþer, cuppan, scill, oþþe stān, and lǣtan hine geseon þæt cūþe of stillre onhworfenre gesihþe.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Middel meregrēne.
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