Sēo gewritrolle on sceate þǣre Abbodessan wunaþ unrǣden, blæc ā geþrycced betwux hire bōcfellleafum. Se wǣfels æfter hire, ǣr gang, is āheardod on stān ceasterwāges, ungemend þām āscungum gebedenum on ǣgþre healfe. Hire pōl, ǣr blīciende, ligeþ stille under heofone lēasra wolcna. Brerd þæs wæteres nānne scīman ne giefþ, ān stilnesse dēope swā wintres mist. Þǣr ǣr hwispru mihte þone þersceold oferfaran, nū stilnes hīe selfe gaderaþ, sculdorhrægl gewefen of ǣfenne ealra unandswarodra þinga.
Is hūs æt brerde þæs ealdan dǣles, his hrōftiglu ādimmod mid gēarum regnes. On þām lȳtlan tūne ēastānas þone pæþ gebrerdaþ, ælc ān gesmēþod mid unārīmedum stæpum. Īsenhwer sit on þām heorþe, se ilca tōn swā asca þæs heorþes æfter þām þe sēo lāteste glēd swelteþ. Se lyft healdeþ gemynd nihta þā dēagolnessa wǣron gereht, ac nāne stefna nū cumaþ, ān tic þæs tīdmæles and hriste drīgra leafa ūte. Sēo woruld hæfþ stilnesse ǣrmorgenes on wintra, þonne se heofon nēah is and sēo eorþe stille is, and nāht ne styreþ būtan þynnum smīce of scēate.
Būtan þǣre ceastre beorghrycg ārīseþ, his andwlitan bewæfede mid morgenmiste. Hēafdu and denu on ōþer gāþ, þā brerdas ungewisse, sēo feornes gemearcod nā mid beorhtnesse ac mid þicnesse, mid slāwre settunge ealdes regnes on ealdum stāne. Wegferendan faraþ be þām hrycgpæþum, bōtas bewæfede mid dūste ealdra wega, hwītelas þearle getogene ongean þone ciele þe æfter storme clifaþ. Þā ealdan delferas þisne landsceap wel cūþon. Hira tōl nū restaþ on scēopum æt fōtum þāra hylla, spadan and sceaflas befæstnode mid þām ilcan ǣfenne swā þā stānas þe hīe ǣr tōclēofon. Nā ælc ǣdre hīe selfe ætȳwde. Nā ælc dēagolnes āgeaf.
Æt bīege þǣre ēa weligas tō þām wætere būgaþ, hira rinde fūht and ceald, hira sceada lang strecende. Fisceras, geþyldige swā se stān under hira fōtum, hira nett on stilnesse bettaþ, getrūwiende þone flōd ac nā þone heofon. Sēo sunne ne þurhbriceþ ælcne dæg. Hwīlum mist wunaþ oþ ǣfen, and ēac þā wilde culfran stillīce under ūfeweardum gaderiaþ, hira feþera nēah geþryccede, hira ēagan wacigende and stille.
Binnan þām hūse is wullhrægl gefeald æt fōtum þæs beddes, lāf færelda ofer mōrum and rōdstedum. Īsen cǣg resteþ on þām ēagþyrlstāne, hire locu unwend for tīdum nū. Sēo bōc on þām bēode ligeþ belocen, þā leaf þicce mid dūste unāredra geryna. Ufan hire eald biliþ on tinstæne, andwlitan āwende fram þām scēawere, ēagan āhafene tō sumum ungesewenum būtan þām hragle. Þis is sēo tīd þonne þæt ungesprecena mā wegeþ þonne word. Sēo dēagolnes is, ac hēo is stān on grunde þæs willes mā þonne ȳþ on þām brerde.
Tō styrienne binnan þissum rȳme man mæg þā ealdan cǣg glētian oþþæt hire gefræge sīe onwrigen mid hrīne ānum, oþþe hlāf on þām īsenpotte wyrcan, and lǣtan þā stilnesse on þǣre cycene rīsan. Stæpp ūt on þone tūn æt ǣfenne and gesete þā ēastānas on mynet cūþ ān þē, oþþe gā under þām genipodan heofone, hlystende þām spellum þe on stilnesse libbaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Getrūwa þǣre stilnesse þæt hēo hire āgenne cyn andsware healde.