On þām ealdan hāligdōme þā swēras standaþ swā stille gewitan unārīmedra þegnunga. Corfene stafas and hefige bēc restaþ on þām wēofode, ælc geprycced mid tācnum anwealdes and cūþnesse. Ac tōdæg se prēost træcþ þā cūþan gebǣru būtan trēowe. Þā word edlǣcaþ, ac hira andgiet āslīdeþ, swā stōr ūt of openum ēagþyrle drīfeþ. Sēo gesamnung sit on bencum glētedum mid cneorissum, hira gīemel fæstera mā on grēote wudes under hira handum þonne on þǣre þegnunge selfre.
Būtan þām stānwāgum se cēap is cwic mid þēawum dæghwāmlīces līfes. Cēapsetl sind oferwrigene mid wāfum gewefenum of rūhum clāþe, þearle āþenedum tō werienne þone middæges hǣte. Sæccas melwes and bærlices sind āstaplede ongean þā grundweallas, gemearcode mid namum ealdra hīreda and cræfta. Þās andweorc, leþer, hȳd, hænepclāþ, nabbaþ openne wlite, ac hīe þurhwuniaþ, wederigende þā gongendan tīda. On brerde þæs cēapstōwes scēowyrhtan barmclāþ, gehnesced mid gēarum handlunge, hangþ be tōlum gesmēþodum mid brūce.
Þæt landspell segþ be lārēowe þe, wērig æmtigra þegnunga, sweotolnesse on þām gewunelīcan sōhte. Hēo fōd hīe on brerde wel gebrocenes metebredes, his brerdas gesinewealdode mid gēarum gearwunge meta for þām þe cōmon sēcende rǣdes. Hēo leornode of mynete durumealta, gebregdenra of stelum ǣrran sǣdes hwǣtes, þæt þurhwunung is gebytlod of þām þe æt handa is. Se rīpfeld æfter rīpe is stille, mid byndelum strēawes gebundenum tō nīetenbedde oþþe tō swāpenne dūst of þersceoldum. Nāht is forspilled, þēah nāht sīe frætwod.
Wegferendan on þām drīgum hēahlændwegum findaþ scyld under hænepclāþe āþenedum ofer hrædwyrhtum hraglum. Þās wrigels, gelæppod and besmīted of langum brūce, lȳtel on þegnunge āgiefaþ ac micel on frōfre. On hāmum wahrift of gewefenum hænepe hangiaþ on durum, hira rūhan þrǣdas seohterne þæt lēoht and þone wind. Hīe stōwe dēorra wahrifta nimaþ, ac þurhwuniaþ, dōnde weorc scyldes and dēagolnesse þǣr þegnung hire stōwe forlēas.
Se wīsdōm on gehworfendre þegnunge is tō findenne nā on þām miclan wlite, ac on edlǣce gebǣra þe dæghwāmlīc līf scyppaþ. Bōc mid brerde nīetenhȳde sit æt hyrne trēowwyrhtan bēodes, gefylled mid mearcum and metungum. Æt ǣfenne cild gaderiaþ ymbe hlāf cealdigendne on þiccum wudubrede, sēo rinde gemearcod mid þām handum þe hine scōpon. Sēo woruld is gehealdan mid swilcum þingum: nā þegnung, ac þā weorc stillīce gefremedu, eft and eft, oþþæt hīe hira āgen andgiet healdaþ.
Tōdæg sum man mæg his stæpe mid strēawbesme swāpan, hlystende þone swēg þe hē on stāne dēþ. Hīe magon toslitenne sæcc betan, nǣdl þrǣdende þurh trumne clāþ be lēohte þæs ēagþyrles. Hīe magon metsēþunge on nīwne leaf āwrītan, þæt bōcfell þicce under hira handa, oþþe byndel drīgra gærsa for hira gang cnyttan. Ælc weorc andgiet āgiefþ þām gefrægum þe hit swā lange heoldon.
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