Betwux þām swērum Sēo Abbodesse sit, healf sceadu and healf gehāt. Se wǣfels æfter hire is þiclīce gewefen, gemearcod mid granatæpplum, and nāht þurhgǣþ būtan þām lǣsestan hwispre blǣdes. On hire sceate resteþ gewritrolle, hire brerd belocen eallum būtan þām gelǣredum. Under hire þrymmsetle wæter ligeþ full stille, scīnende þone unhrinenan andwlitan bediglodes pōles æt dægrēd. Þis nis se irnenda strēam sprǣce ac se unstyrienda dēop ābīdigendre stilnesse, sēo tīd ǣr dēagolnes sīe gesæd.
Būtan þissum cleofan, on tūnum lange begīmenum mid carfulum handum, trēow standaþ mid telgum hefigum. Se wæstm þe hīe beraþ is ǣfendeorc, āmlang and ceald tō hrīnanne. Þās trēow belumpon ealdum orcerdum on feorrum denum, and munucwudum ealdra landa þǣr stilnes is regol mā þonne gewuna. Sume secgaþ þæt on hēahlændum Asie þā ǣrestan þissa trēowa wǣron plantode nēah templum, hira wyrtruman dēope on stāne and lāme, hira telgas træcende þā tīda þā hwīle þe cneorissa under hira sceade fōron. On spelle ān swilc trēow wēox nēah hēarge þǣr sēcenda sceoldon lȳtle fealdu bōcfelles on þā rinde hæftan, ælc berende āscung þe gīet ne mihte hlūde bēon gecweden. Se wæstm, þonne hē wæs gegaderod, wæs ā gehealden tō þām stillostum þegnungum.
Binnan cycenum æt ǣfenne se wæstm is mid carfulre handa tōhealfod and his cyrnel ātogen. Þæt flǣsc is geseted on bollum be lȳtlum sponum and ealdum metsēþungum āwritenum mid ealdmōdrum þe hwisprodon þā hwīle þe hīe māton. Swētseaw of þissum wæstme þiccaþ on potte, ūpsendende smalu wolcn swētnesse þe þone lȳtlan rūm fylleþ. His stenc wunaþ on þām wuduspone, swā hē gemune ælcne sumor āspendedne on þām orcerde. Hwīlum dropa is gegoten on cuppan tē, dēopende his swæcc, oþþe mid sponne geseted ofer snæde hlāfes tō mearcienne ende stilles æfternihtes. On hyrne scēat hangþ ofer bæc cycenstōles, gewefen of þām hnescostum þrǣdum and gedēagod mid wōsum geworhtum of þæs ilcan wæstmes hȳde. Þā hwīle þe hē þæt ǣfenlēoht fangeþ, hē þyncþ sum þing underbæc healdan, spell þe gīet nis gearu tō reccenne.
Lange ǣr cēapmenn windlas þisses wæstmes bǣron on cratum þe cealde feldas and ēadenu oferfōron, gebunden tō feorrum cēapum. Bewunden on gewefenum clāþe se wæstm þurhwunode mōnaþas færeldes, gehāt swētnesse æt ende sīþes. On þām cēapum selfum cēapmenn hine geafon swā ēgþer mete and lācnung, bōt stilles sāres oþþe slēaplēasra nihta. Lǣcas his drīgan blōstman mid weallendum wætere briwdon, gēotende þone wos on cuppan corfene of bāne oþþe wude. Se swæcc wæs līþe, ac se cræft wæs slaw and gewis, swā tēonde wāgrift hnescce ofer unrōtum swefnum. On ōþrum stōwum þā telgas wǣron forbærnde on wintres ofnum, fyllende hām mid smalum stence on ǣfenum þonne se snāw hēah drāf.
On dæge swā tōdæg þū meaht snædas þæs wæstmes on wearmum wætere sēoþan and þone wos sūpan þā hwīle þe þū ōþres mannes spell rǣtst, oþþe þone cyrnel on molde þryccan and getrūwian þæt geþyld wyrtruman bringe. Þū meaht þē bewefan on scēate geworhtum of his þrǣdum and hine werian þā hwīle þe þū ǣrend wrītst þe þū ne þencst tō sendanne. Oþþe þū meaht ealdne tūn sēcan, stillīce standan under trēowe, and hlystan hwæt þā leaf ne secgaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Plūmbasu.
Lucky Color: Plum — #DDA0DDLǣt stille āscunga on sceade restan.