Ān wer gǣþ āna, lēohtfæt nēah geheald, ǣlc stæpe rædfæst on pæþe þǣr swīge wunaþ swā gefēra. Se hēahweg nis geþæþod, ac þrycced niþer fram cneorissum fōta, heora spell forlorenu tō winde and tīde. On handa þæs Ānsetlan underwreþeþ stæf þæt færeld, strang swā sēo crycc ǣr genumen of æcere and smēþe gesniden, gesealfod on openum lyfte. Glēam þæs lēohtfætes rǣcþ uneaþe ofer ānne stæpe, and swā wīcþ sēo woruld, and lǣfþ þone wegfarend mid eorþan under, heofone ufan, and geþōhtum innan.
Þurh hlīþ ealdre Anatolie cnāwaþ scēaphierdas ānnesse swā cynn wederes, þā langran æfernas þonne feorr þunor murcnaþ ofer ādrūgodum gærse and se ānga gefēra is mentel, bewring rūhes clāþes sponnenes of grōfum þrǣdum. Þā þrǣdas fōþ þæt dūst of þām wege, stenc hīeges, gemynd rīpa. On þām hēahlandum sind dagas þonne þā feldas tōsprǣdaþ swā feorr swā mōd mæg geþencan, drȳge ac þurhwunigende, gemearcode mid stelum wildes hwǣtes ymbhweorfendum on winde. Heora sǣdhēafda hnigaþ hefiglīce, swā hīe gehīeren dēagolnesse þe þā þurhwunigendan stānas hwispriaþ, þā þe mearciaþ gemǣre þæs ealdan pæþes.
Þā þe rīpaþ, þā þe wōriaþ, getrīewiaþ tōlum þe þurhwuniaþ rūhne brūc and hlēowe wintras. Þǣr is sum sēam, boren ofer gēar, geworht of seglclāþe þe ǣr scylde cempan on fare oþþe gescylde geteldcēapstōwa wiþ nīedre sunnan and fǣrlicre dropunge. His brerd segþ his āgene stǣr, scēad of feldbōte, hring þǣr ele ǣr āgēat, se lēasa lāst gewrites on stafum nū uncūþum. On ǣlcum hūse þǣr geþyld is cræft, is mortere and stampe gehealden gearu for wyrtum oþþe cornum, his bolla smēþe gewered of gēarum fæstes brūces. Sēo ealde cycene is stōw stilles gewinnes, þǣr man tōscēadaþ lentbēana mid handa, bēana of stānum ātogen, and ǣlc met is geleornod be fēle mā þonne be gesihþe.
Spell gaderiaþ æt ecge þǣre worulde, on landum þǣr se wind scræf open feld and se grund is gemearcod mid fare wōriendra and heora eowda. Færeld þæs Ānsetlan is edwistod mid styrenesse fara þe gāþ steppan under wolcnihtum heofonum, heora geteld geslagen on eorþan þe geman hīw hōfa and þrycc wefenra matta. Lēodspell cwiþ þæt æfter þām regnum bere se grund gemynd ǣlces wegfarendes, þone þryccedan lāst hēahscōsa and windla, oþþæt sēo sunne drȳgeþ þā mēlan and hīe gewītaþ. On swilcum stōwum nis ānnes forlǣtennes ac gymen, weg tō gīemenne þā smalan hweorfunge þæs wederes, þā slāwan rīpunge bere, þone feorran cīg belle gebundenre tō ramme.
Tōdæg mæg man gaderian mil oþþe bere on trēowbollan and smēagan þā tīd þe hit þearf tō geweorþanne nytt. Mentel oþþe weorcclāþ, hefig mid dūste þæs wyrtūnes, mæg bēon āscacen on openum lyfte þā hwīle þe þæt mōd wōraþ. Find stille tīd tō grindenne drȳgne wyrttruman oþþe sǣd mid ealdre stampan, and gehīer hū geþyld giefþ smæcc. Þonne æfen fielþ, onǣl lēohtfæt and sit be þām ēagþyrle, and læt þā worulde weaxan lȳtle and gegaderode on ān weorc.
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