Ān wer stent āna on muntes geate, his fēt āplantode on þām rūhan pæþe. Hē hlīnaþ on stæfe, þe nis nāht geworht ne geglenged, ac þæs cynnes gangstæfes þe man mihte snīdan of strangum, windgeweredum trēowe on norþerre hlīþe. His brerd is gemearcod mid ealdum cnottum and scræpunge seaxes, swā nytwyrþe swā se wegfarend self. On his ōþerre handa glōwaþ lēohtfæt, his lȳtla hring fȳres nēah geheald, līhtende þone pæþ āna beforan. Hēr is sēo woruld stil ac nā īdel, stān under fōtum, wind on þām bōgum, se lēasa stenc eorþan and ealdra lēafa. Se Ānsetla gǣþ under heofone þǣr þæt weder mæg hweorfan, and hīw þinga weorþaþ ǣgþer scyld and tācn.
Lange ǣr glæse and ele wæs sēo timbrung þæs lēohtfætes getimbrod of heortwuda and īsenne. Munecas and wōriendas snidon hīe of timbre gegaderodum æt ecge þæs wudu, wuda þe hæfde ārafen tīda snāwes and þawes, rind þicce and þrȳþig, grān yrnende riht swā gedrēfed mōd. Swilc timber wæs hrycg landlicra fōtbrycga and ribba ānfealdra cota, healdende wearmþe þurh þā langran, heardan mōnþas þonne weres ānga gefēra wæs hīw his āgenra geþōhta. Tō sittanne be trēowbēode, gemearcodum mid ǣlcre scræpunge dæghwāmlīces līfes, and tō āsettenne þæt lēohtfæt niþer, is tō cēosenne gefērscipe swīge and slāwra tīda.
Þis wudu hæfþ boren manige naman, æsc, bōc, āc, ac se cræft is se ilca. Nim, tō bȳsne, þone weorcbenc on hyrne ealdes hūses, se brerd geburnod fram gēarum brūces, oþþe cucler handcorfenne tō hrērenne crocc ofer fæstum fȳre. On norþernum tūnum snidon cypan ǣr stafas tō tunnum þe scoldon healdan hærfestes æpplas oþþe gehealdan þā smocodan rīpas lates sumeres. On wudum bǣron huntan grin and tōl gebundene mid heardum wyrttrumum, and ǣlc handle, ǣlc hlǣderstæf, ǣlc fæstlīc bedd gehlēowode on strengþe þæs þe wæs gescypen mid æxe and handa. Ēac scēaphierdes crycc, boren ofer þā hēahan lǣsa, wæs corfen of þām ilcan þurhwunigendan stocce.
Ānnes nis īdelnes, ac gaderung nīedþearfa, stōw tō sittanne, lēoht tō rǣdenne be, stæf þe ne biþ swic, eall ātogen of þām þe þæt land wille giefan. Lēohtfæt þæs Ānsetlan weorpeþ lȳtelne rǣd, ac binnan him biþ ǣlc þing ætīewed on his āgenum riht. Þǣr is sēo cyst, duru cnyssende tō mid hefignesse cēapmelwes and wildes huniges. Þǣr is sēo butercyrn þæs fæsta ryne gǣþ þā tīda on stormigum æferne. Se Ānsetla cnǣwþ geþyldig weorþ þinga slāwe geweaxenra, þone bollan smēþe gesandedne æfter tīdum brūces, þā florbrædu þe gnorniaþ under gīemenfullum stæpum, þā hegestacan þe healdaþ on bæc þone wind and mearciaþ gemǣre līfes ālifdes for his āgenum andgiete.
Sume dagas hlīnaþ se stæf wiþ þone portic þā hwīle þe þū bētst lēasne hlǣderstæf. Ōþre dagas meaht þū wīpian þone ealdan trēowbēod æfter æfenes ātenedes on wrītunge be lēohtfæte, grān þæs brerdes healdende ǣlc spell. Gōd is ēac tō snīdenne nīwne cucler of gefeallenum bōge, oþþe tō sandienne ecg cystduru þæt hēo tōgā būtan wiþcwide. Oþþe þū meaht feccan ānfealdne stōl, sittan mid openre bōce, and gehīeran þæt weder gān þurh þā trēowu ūtan þīnum ēagþyrle.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Trēowbrūn.
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