Þæs Pāpan gewunelīc setl is hēah geseted, ymbfrætwed mid swērum and gemetodum hræglum, se lyft ā þicce mid gemete sanga and gelōgodum stōre. Ac gehworfen, þæt setl is æmtig, þā hrægl unmannode. Se rūm nis stille, ac se edlǣc is ōþer: ān þā þegnunga edlǣcaþ, ælc gebǣre gefremed būtan his ealdre wihte, swā þā word tōstenced sīen and nū sīen ān gefræge, nā swēg. Būtan swilcre cleofan andgiet ūt slīdeþ and fylgeþ þām windigum wyrtruman under mynsterflōrum, sēcende nīwe gefræge tō būenne.
Þæs cartes spell weorþeþ healfe gemunod þegnung, fyrd fōta on stāne, ac nū se stān nis marmar nē granit, ac se heorþwudu dēores ēastlīces trēowes, ǣr corfen and glēted tō hālgum bencum and tō helfum gebedbōca. Se brerd is smēþe, lange forwered mid handum sēcendum latteowes, ac nū þā benc sind æmtige, hira andweardnes gemearcod ān mid wearmþe lǣfedre on þām grēote. Sēo þegnung gǣþ forþ on þǣre cycene, þǣr seþung wylmeþ on īsenpotte, se swæcc dēop and strang, gemunende þā slāwan geþyld þāra þe andgietes hweorfcymes ābidaþ. Sēo seþung hæfþ coddas and bēana gehealdene ofer tīda, wyrtruman of þām lātestan rīpe, and cuppan ealdes wīnes ingegotene for wyrde and gemynde. Se wǣta bubblaþ, welig, and bewǣfeþ þone wuduspon þe hine hrēreþ.
Būtan þām wāgum sēo woruld þæt gefræge þringeþ. Ofer þām gārsecge, on īglandum corfenum mid winde and regne, gemǣnnessa gaderodon strengþu on wudum, bediglodum and þurhwuniendum. Hira spell sind getraced on rinde cacaotrēowa and on þǣre wyrte þe handa þāra besmīteþ þe tōdǣlaþ and brǣdaþ, þe cēapiaþ on þingum þe þurh earfoþ þurhwuniaþ: sǣd, drīge wæstmas, bitere rinda. Þās þing gāþ of handa tō handa, and hira wihte is cyn cūþnesse, yldra þonne ǣnig āwriten līne. Se weder hēr is wendende þing, se æfternihtstorm þe mid rǣse cymþ, heofon þicce and lēase, lyft beotende mid gehāt ac tōbrecende, and lǣfende wæstmbǣre molde and stenc eorþan þe æfter þām regne wunaþ.
On þǣre ceastre sēamwyrhta pæll þrycceþ tō scyppenne þegnunggyrdel, se clāþ hefig and gefrætwod, geþōht tō þegnunge þæs andgiet is fordwinod ac þæs gefræge þurhwunaþ. Þæs sēamwyrhtan fingras gemunaþ mā þonne se mōd dēþ. Ælc feald and sēam is edlǣc sumes þe ǣr wæs gelȳfed. Se clāþ biþ boren and wundrod, ac þonne sēo þegnung endaþ, hē is ahanged on deorcum hræglcyste mid ōþrum, ælc berende spell gesīwod on hira brerdum, ābīdigende tīd þonne hira endebyrdnes eft mæge bēon gesprecen.
Sēo hwyrf þǣre carte lǣfþ lȳtle openunga. Þū meaht wudubolle ūt niman, smēþe mid gēarum handlunge, and hine mid wæstme oþþe seþunge fyllan, weorþiende gefræge þæs þe fōdan healdeþ. Oþþe þū meaht stōrsticcan ontendan, sceawigende þone smīc wrīþan and fordwinan, gemunende þæt gefræge mæg bēon þēah andgiet on wendunge sīe. Þū meaht gān æfter storme, and lǣtan stenc wǣtre rinde and eorþan þē gemunan þing þe under þām brerde þurhwuniaþ. Oþþe, on stilnesse, belūc þā duru, bewef þē on hefigum hrægle, and geþenc þone feorran gārsecg and þā handa þe scōpon þæt þū healdest.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēoprēad.
Lucky Color: Maroon — #800000Ber gemynd þæs wudes and þæs heorþes, and lǣt wihte and geþyld þē lǣdan.