Sēo gewritrolle resteþ on hire sceate, unhrinen, þæt gewrit bediglod under geinsiglodum brerde. Þā swēras on ǣgþre healfe nā leng þyncaþ pæþ mearcian, ac nū ymbfrætwaþ þersceold þe is belocen eallum būtan gemynde. Þǣr ǣr þæt wæter æfter hire his dēagolnessa hwisprode, tōniht hit is stille wæterþēote æt ǣfenne, nā flōwende, ān scīnende þone hefigan heofon ufan. Se lyft healdeþ stilnesse āteahtere cūþnesse, swā ēac ēage þæs mōnan sīe innweard gewend, bewæfed æfter gaderiendum wolcnum.
Geþenc tūn æt brerde ǣfenes, þǣr se iris and se hyacint on hīe selfe sind gefeald, blōstman dēopende under þrycce nihte. On þissum tūne stāntigel of gēarhundmynstre fangeþ þæt lāteste dæglēoht, his brerd gewederod mid regne and gēarum stillra fōtstapa. Swilce tiglu ǣr hrēfodon þā bōchern þǣr munucas ofer belocenum cistum būgon, cǣga gehealdene on racenteagum under hira hræglum. Þā word binnan þām cistum ne wǣron gemēned ælcum ēagan. Hira wīsdōm wæs gewegen mid stilnesse swā miccle swā mid blæce.
On feorrum landum ēastān, getogen of bedde norþerre burnan, healdeþ ciele wæteres ēac æfter þām þe hē on ēagþyrlstān is geseted. Hē is smēþe, þicce, and deorc, dēagolnes under þǣre folme. Hine healdan is gefēlan stilnesse ǣfenstorma incumendra, þone ofræs windes þe tūnesmenn inn drīfeþ. Duru sind belocene, scyttelsas getogene, and se heorþ is begīmen mid stillum handum. On sǣhæfene þā fisceras hira nett wealwiaþ and hira bātas tō þām brice wendaþ þā hwīle þe þā stormblācern sind ontende, hira glæsandwlitan dimme scīnende. Þā bātas hnescce bifiaþ, nū gebundene, þæs dæges weorc gefylled, þæt wæter ungestæþþig and unrǣdenlic.
Binnan þām hāme eald wullscēat abideþ on cedercyste, gefeald fela tīda and ūt getogen ān þonne se cealda wind þā ēagþyrlu þringeþ. Hē gīet gemanþ þā spell gereht be þām ofne, þā carte gehrērde æt bēode, and þā gebed hwispred for gesundum færeld. On hēagum beorge hierdes hwītel, handgewefen and hefig, is āhangen ofer benc. His þrǣdas gemunaþ beorgmistas and þā langan tīda wacigende þone pæþ windan āweg and fordwinan, þone heofonriman forloren miste. Cūþnes hēr is nēah gehealdan, hīredmetsēþung geþrycced on bōc, cǣg bediglod æfter þām wāgclaþe, ǣrend næfre gesended.
Tōdæg man mæg pott tē briwan and stillīce sittan be þām ēagþyrle, handa bewundene ymbe lāmcuppan, and lǣtan þā stilnesse sittan. Man mæg gemyndbōc belūcan, gehātende þæt man þā leaf ne ontȳne oþþæt sēo tīd riht sīe. Ōþer mæg smēþne stān of þām tūne niman and hine on pōsan healdan, gemynd þæt sume þing nū betst ungesprecen wuniaþ. Oþþe, æt ǣfenne, gā be þǣre wæterþēote and hlyst tō þām stillan wætere, witende þæt nā ælc āscung tōniht andsware ne nēodaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc stānhæwen.
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