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Tōdæges wyrdblēo, of þǣm tārote ātogen

Tēoh āne cartan / Se Ānsetla

Se Ānsetla, Græg. Þæt blēo ætīewþ on þǣm spægle on middan.

Græg

Onwend · #808080

On coppe þæs muntes is þæt lēohtfæt ceald on handa þæs Ānsetlan. Se weg behindan is lang swēg stānes, ābrocen mid dǣlum snāwes þe ne þāwaþ and mid clūdum mid ragu gehrōsodum. Se heofon þrycceþ niþer, hrōf nīedra, unbrocenra wolcna, hæftende þone munt on worulde būtan sunnan. Ymbe eall ymbwind mist and þiccaþ, swelgende ecgas ǣlces stānes and pæþes. Se Ānsetla, inweard gewend, hæfþ lǣten þæt fȳr sweltan and ne cīgþ leng ofer þā nearonesse. Hē is bewunden on grōfre hwītele, þā þrǣdas rūhe and besprengde mid gemynde scēapa þe ǣr gǣrsodon on hēahum lǣsum.

Niþer þǣre hlīþe is sēo woruld unstyriende. Regn fielþ on stillum scēatum, hweorfende þæt stāngrēot tō fænne and mearciende brerd meres þe seldon ȳþaþ. On tūne rīst smoca of heorþscorum, tōsīgende on þone wǣtan lyft ofer sciferhrōfum. Þā tūnesmenn gāþ under, hēafda gebogen under þǣre dropunge, heora roccas bebēadode mid wætere. Āhēapod wiþ durum, ēastānas, ǣr gegaderode tō mearcienne gemǣre, glitniaþ æfter nihtes storme. Hēr wierþ wiþsæcung þæs Ānsetlan tō ofdūfenne tō þǣre swīge þe setlaþ æfter feorres þunores, gealdor āhafendre styrenesse, swīge ābrocen āna fram dropan of ofese and fæstum tīcce clocces on þām heorþofere.

Ǣr tēah lēohtfæt þæs Ānsetlan wōriendas ūp þone stānihtan pæþ. Nū, mid his lēge ofergitenum, is se ānga gefēra se slāwa weaxþ mēoses on þām helmum, se drift mistes betweox stānhēapum. On wyrtūne neoþan swell cāwel under wǣtre hefignesse wolcnihtes morgenes, lēaf gefrætwod mid dēawe. Se weg tō þǣre worulde is gȳt þǣr, ac Se Ānsetla hæfþ gecoren gefērscipe grānites, smæcc cealdes briwes, and scræpunge hwetstānes ofer bladu seaxes ādīglodes fram ānnesse. Ǣlc þing on þisse beorgānnesse is nytwyrþe and þurhwunigende, se tīnbolla þe hielt gisternes hlāf, þā ēapapolstānas gebrocene tō fæstnienne fisclīnan, se dǣl lāuendrewyrte tō sǣde gegān.

Se munt nis īdel, āna stil. Þā āsmoredan bellan of feorrum scēapum, se edwist æxe on wǣtum wuda, and se wealc þunores feorr, ealle gaderiaþ on þām lyfte. Lēohtfæt þæs Ānsetlan, ǣr bēacen, is nū gedōn on cyste mid ealdum næglum and gewederodre feldbōce. On þisse ānfleamunge cymþ blēo þǣre worulde of stāne and wolcne, of rinde wīlige æfter regne, of gebēatodum tīnbucce gesettum on þām þerscwolde tō fōnne þone oferryne. Þǣr nis ofest tō edciere, nān cīg tō fȳrlēohte þæs tūnes. Ānnes is geworden se hearda weg gecoren, se āna copp þæs muntes, þæt unonǣlede lēohtfæt.

Tōdæg meaht þū sittan stille be sciferēagþyrle, dragende hīw regndropa mid þīnum fingre. Þū meaht cocan ānfealdne mete swammana and bere, and lǣtan þone rēc rīsan þā hwīle þe þū ǣþmast stenc eorþan and stānes. Þū meaht glisnian tīncuppan oþþe scearpian lēof tōl, and gehīeran þā smalan scræpunge and findan frōfor on þām slāwan, fæstan weorce. Oþþe þū meaht gān ūt under nīþrum heofone, and lǣtan swīge mistes and smalan dropan wæteres scyppan þīne geþōhtas tō sumum stillum.

Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Græg.
Lucky Color: Gray — #808080Læt þæs muntes weder lǣdan þīne stæpas.

Onbæc — Se Ānsetla