Þæt lēohtfæt is ācwenct, and se munt is swīgende. Pæþ þe ǣr wand niþer and ūt, tō þām tūnum neoþan, lǣt nū āna furþor on þone wind, on þone clǣnan cealdan lyft æt þām coppe. Hēr sind þā miclan mentelas ānnesse ūp ātogene, hefige and wefene for langum nihtum. For openum lēge bewint se wer hine on clāþe þe hæfþ gescyldod sǣlidan wiþ storme and ȳþum gēar, þǣre ilcan wulle þe līnde innan wīgscipu, þām ilcan roccum fundenum on weardrūmocystum on scipum gebundnum under fremdum steorrum.
Gif Se Ānsetla on rihtre sīdan is latteow, lēohtfæt āhafen, þonne wierþ hē on þǣre ymbcerredan sīdan hyrde þerscwolda, wiþsācende cīg stefna edwistendra ūp of nīþerhlīþum and hȳþum. Sēo sǣ is ūt of gesihþe, ac nā ūt of gemynde. On feornesse, begeondan þām hrycgum, sind scipu æt ancran, heora ceolas bedyfte on æfenmiste. Feorr neoþan bēoþ gegierela geburstede and āhangene, geseowene þām þe gāþ of landum tō landum, of swīge on hlyd hȳþa. Þās hrægl habbaþ ārafen sealt and wind, þā unbīegendan steore endebyrdnesse and þēawes, and þēah on þissum munte sind hīe āna ōþer hȳd þām þe hæfþ gecoren ānlīf.
Morgen is slāw tō rīsenne. Se heofon is þicce, hefig mid þām ilcan blēo swā þæt dēope wæter ūtan Plȳmūþes on Ǣfterran Gēolan, hrōf þe þrycceþ niþer on þæt mōd oþþæt hit swefn nā edciere, ac furþres drīfes. Þǣr sind spell farendra þe seglodon gēar, nǣfre tō lande stepppende, and worhton woruld of heora scipe, heora mēlum, heora þēawum. Hēr, ēac, timbraþ Se Ānsetla woruld of lȳtlum, endebyrdum dǣdum, fealdunge sǣmannes rocces on nihte, þrycce hættes þe nǣfre ne gesiehþ wægnfæreld, slāwre glisnunge gebēatodes sextantes þe nis leng nīed tō steorne. Nān tācn ne biþ gesended, nān lēohtfæt onǣled þām ōþrum tō fylgenne.
For þon is þæt weder eald gefēra. Stormas wealcaþ ofer þone munt swā mist on Engla Nearu. Þā lēohtfatu wuniaþ unonǣlede, þā ēagþyrel belocen, and Se Ānsetla gehīerþ þone slāwan dropan dropunge of þām hrōfe, edwistende swēg regnes on hæccum and bordplatum. Ēac se mete is hlēow and sealtig, hlāf þe cræcþ swā scipbiscit, snæd gehealdenes cȳses, caffe āwylled on gebēatodum cytele þæs handle is bewunden on wullenum þrǣde. Ǣlc þing is nytwyrþe, gewered, and inweard.
Wiþsæcung gefērscipe is āgen færeld. Se Ānsetla ne cīgþ tō þām scipum neoþan, ne hweorfeþ tō wearmþe þǣre sǣcycene oþþe tō sange þæs sǣbeoddernes. For þon wierþ hē ān mid swīgendum weardum, þām þe habbaþ gestanden ānlīce tīda þā hwīle þe sēo woruld hwearf ungesewen under þām ceole. Ceald þæs muntes is cūþ steor, and sēo gesihþ, weall wintra heofones, is swā unbīegende swā īsen ceolas fregata anbīdendra beboda.
Tōdæg meaht þū þryccan þīnne roc mid geþylde, endebyrdan þā tōl on þīnum ingange, oþþe wellan crocc stranges caffes tō drincenne stille, mid nānum lōciendum on. Þū meaht cēosan tō wrītenne ǣrendgewrit and inseglian hit, þonne dōn hit on cēast and nā sendan, oþþe ānlīce wacian þone regn swā hē formeþ dropan on þīnum ēagþyrle and slīdeþ niþer ūt of gesihþe.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Flotahæwen.
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