Sēo Abbodesse sit betwux þām stānswērum, ac tōdæg hire ēage is fæst on þǣre geinsiglodan gewritrolle on hire sceate. Se cūþa hyrneda mōna æt hire fōtum is drīge, stille bīeg ofer molde þǣr sēo ēa ǣr hwisprode. Sēo wahrift æfter hire, gesīwod mid wīnbēamum, þyncþ þiccre, swā weaxende tō fordylfenne þā bediglodan duru. On lyfte æwist hangþ hefigor þonne stōr. Swā hwæt swā ǣr stillīce of ingehyde tō heortan fērde is nū gefangen æfter tigelan and limweorce, gehealdan mid handum unwillendum þā dēagolnesse tō āgiefenne.
On ealdum ceastrum fōthylla Zagros wīf bǣron hrægl gedēagod mid wōse of mearge beorgblōstmena, tōn dēopne genōg tō forswelgenne sunnlēoht, se ilca hīw swā þæt blæc gehealden for forbodenum namum on temples bōcum. Þæt dēag wæs seldcūþ, geþrycced on pæll tō hefigum wāgriftum getogenum ofer wintres ēagþyrlum, swā þæt sēo ūteworuld ne mihte inn lōcian. Bōceras on forgitenum bōchernum hira gemyndbēc bundon on gāthȳde gelǣcedre mid þām ilcan wōse, leaf byrstig mid āscungum þe hīe ne dorston hlūde andswarian. Sēo dēagolnes, þonne hēo tō lange wæs gehealdan, wearþ þing self, loc, gemǣre, weall þicces pællwāgriftes.
Be brerde þæs feldes wilde foxglōfan blōwaþ æfter þām ǣrestan þunorstorme, hira bellan hangende, hefige and unrǣdenlice, ofer eorþan þǣr ealde wellas for þā tīd sind geinsiglode. Nān of him ne tēoþ. Þæt wæter healdeþ his spell tō him selfum. Lange ǣr wyrtlǣcas on lȳtlum tūnum þā blōstman tō hira lācnunge brȳsedon, ac þā metsēþunge bediglodon, getrūwiende ān þām belocenan scrīne and stilnesse ǣfenes tō healdene þā cūþnesse gesunde. On cealdum clǣnum nihtum feorr norþlēoht hwīlum blīcode mid þǣre ilcan sceadigan strengþe ofer þām heofonriman, wundor swā seldcūþ þæt hierdas hit nemdon þone stillan ǣrendracan. Ac ēac se heofon nolde his andgiet onwrīon.
Binnan se heorþ is ceald. Bolle rīpera plūma, gemenged and deorc swā ǣfenstormas, sit unhrinen on þām ēagþyrlstāne. Þæs cycenes mortere healdeþ þā lātestan lāstas wyrte, ǣr geþōht tō openienne þæs mōdes duru, nū gegrundan on dust and gehealdan on þearle forstoppodum croccan. Þæt hūs is stille, þæs hīredes stefna carfule þæt hīe ne gēoten on þā rūmas þǣr dēagolnessa fiþera weaxan magon. Sum man þæt hefige bedhrægl smēþeþ, gewefen on mynete gongenum of mēder tō dehter, ælc þrǣd āscung næfre ful gebeden. Ūte færlic storm blōstman of þām henge feallan dēþ, hira feall ungemeted būtan þām ānum catte waciendum under gehworfendum potte.
Is ēaþe, tōdæg, sum geinsiglod þing tō berenne, ǣrend ungesended, āscung ungesprecen, gemynd geþrycced betwux leafum gemyndbōce. On stilnesse morgenes briw tē of croccan ǣr bediglodum on bæc þæs metecōfan, and lǣt his stenc ārīsan and siþþan stillīce dwinan. Wrīt rǣdelse on undersīdan stānes and sete hine æt brerde þæs tūnes, þǣr ān se cēnesta cuma hine wendan mæge. Bet þone geērfsceat mid sticum nēah and smalum, se þrǣd gongende þurh clāþ swā stille swā geheald ēage þǣre Abbodessan. Oþþe ān dūst þā hefigan wāgrift, and lǣt þīne hand gemunan wihte þæs þe ungesewen wunaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc basu.
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