Ānsetla stent on nearwum pæþe, stæf fæste þrycced on eorþan and lēohtfæt geheald on earmes lengþe. Se beorhlyft is drȳge, þā stānas under fōtum sind bedūstode mid blēo geweredes leþeres. Ǣlc stæpe is gemeten, ǣlc anbīdung willes. Glisn þæs lēohtfætes hrīnþ āna þæt þe is binnan rǣce. Begeondan þām wīcþ sēo woruld on stilnesse. Þis is gang underfōn þonne man þearf tō mētenne āna his āgenne gefērscipe, þonne hlyd þǣre worulde fealleþ āweg and dǣlas þæs weges rīsaþ tō mētenne þā andgietu.
Geo, ofer þā wēsten þǣr wōriende clǣnseras ǣr drōgon heora fara, scān se grund blēo heora sandala, geworhtra of cūhȳde, þiccre and hnescre, gescypenre fram gēarum brūces. Þās ælmesmenn bǣron hlāf bewundenne on weaxclāþe, his web fōþ þone morgenleōht, stincende lēaslīce cornes and þāra handa þe hine cnēdon. On þām yldestum mynstrum swōpon munecas þā floras mid besmum geworhtum of drȳgum hreodum, heora handa gerūhode fram weorce. Þā þrǣdas āwēron ofer tīd tō smēþum glisne, stil gewitnes gewinnes smēagunge. Ælmesmenn anbīdedon æt reststōwum tō eftfyllenne heora flascan, þæt wæter ātogen of crocces þæs brerd wæs geburnod fram gēarum hrines, gemearcod mid lāfe fara and stillra gebeda.
On norþlandum scōpon hierdas bollan and cucleras of wuda, heora brerdas gnidene mid bēowæxe oþþæt hīe glisnedon līþe. Þās ēadmōdan fatu mearcodon fær mēla genumenra on ānnesse be þām heorþe. Be seolces wege untyndon cēapmenn bundena casmeres, smæles and þēah stranges, weorþes for his wearmþe and lēohtnesse. Hīe bewundon hīe wiþ sting cealdra winda, ōþer hȳd for nihtum under openum heofone ātenede. On stillrum hyrnum þǣre worulde ālegdon ūþwitan ealde ymbewritu on bōcfelle, se brerd gerūhod fram gīemenfullre scræpunge nīetenhȳde. Fingras drōgon līnan blæces forlǣtenes fram ōþrum sēcendum wīsdōm on swīge candellēohtes.
Þǣr sind dagas þonne sēo woruld nearwaþ and þæt þe ūs mǣst frēfraþ sind þing þe habbaþ āwunnen tīda brūces, hǣren sēam þe hæfþ boren bōc gēar, hlāf mid rinde þe cræcþ under þām seaxe, lēof cuppe þæs handle gefēhþ þā hand swā hē sīe gescypen for ānnesse. Ēac on burgstōwum mæg dǣl pæþes gewered fram morgenwegfarendum oþþe se gewereda rægeling æt ecge þæs feldes giefan þæt ilce gefēlnes grundfæstre andweardnesse. Þās þing, hrinenu fram tīde and willan, wyrcaþ lȳtelne hring gewittes, swīþe swā lēohtfæt þæs Ānsetlan on þām dēorcan.
Tō tēonne þis gefēlnes tōdæg, gā āna ane hwīle on cūþum pæþe, and gīem þone grund under þē. Wind þīnne middægmet on clāþ for plastece, and fel þā wrixle hrōfes on þīnre handa. Ær æfenglōme swāpa dǣl þīnes hāmes mid handbesman and gīem þone līþan swēg þe hē dēþ. Nim hwīle tō hrīnenne þing þe hæfþ gesewen manig gēar, trēowcucler, leþerbōc, wel lufodne sēam, and læt þīne geþōhtas setligan nēah þǣre andweardnesse.
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