Andweardnes þǣre Abbodessan gehworfendre is swā geinsiglod duru on æmtigum gange, se wāgrift þearle getogen ofer hire hāligdōm. Sēo gewritrolle þe hēo healdeþ næfre ne ontȳneþ. Hire stafas sind belocene weleras, nāht gehātende þām sēcendum. Wæter gaderaþ æt hire fōtum ac healdeþ his scīman tō him selfum. Nis ǣnig ȳþ, nis ǣnig onwrigenes, ān stille brerd. On þissum stede þæt þe mihte bēon pæþ tō innweardum sōþe is geworden weall. Þā dēagolnessa ne ābidaþ þē. Hīe sind niþer geþryccede, swā wyrtruman þe under heardre molde windiaþ, unārǣce, ac cwicce.
Ofer windswungum mōre and stānigum lǣswe wyrt wexeþ þe þās sprǣc healdnesse cūþ. Hire stelan sind gewǣpnode mid wiþstandendum þornum, behealdende tuftas þe blōwaþ ongean þone ciele. Fela gēarhundum ǣr hierdas and wegferendan slīefas ongean þās wyrta gnidon, hwīlum hæftende wull oþþe clāþ on þām scearpum leafum. On Scotlande sēo wyrt wearþ tācn, hire blōstma tācn stillre þurhwununge, wiþstandnes tō bēonne genumen oþþe tō ēaþelīce ongieten. Hire hēafdu hnigaþ on cealdum norþwinde, þearle gehēapod be forgitenum fōtpæþum, healdende þā hyllsīdan on stīþre clyppinge. Hēr sēo wyrt þeah þǣr ōþre noldon, and hire āgen gemǣru on þām lande drāg.
Folcspell wēoxon ymbe hire unābīgende gecynd. Cild wǣron gewarnode tō wacienne hwǣr hīe sǣton, þȳ lǣs hīe handa oþþe cnēowu on þā þornas þrungen. Ac on cycenum and on cotum sēo ilce wyrt wæs carfullīce gerīpod. Hire sǣd, gefrēod of þām bewundenum hēafdum, wǣron gegrundan tō gemengenne mid bærlice melwe tō hlāfe þe hīredas þurh hlēowe mōnaþas fēdde. Sume þā sǣd brǣddon, ūt lǣdende smalne hnutswæcc tō tēum gelȳfdum tō smēþienne oþþe tō strengienne, sēo biteres gemynd heardra stōwa and bedigloda giefa. Þā tōhan stelan, þonne hīe drīge wǣron, wurdon hūssesmas, swāpende flor clǣne mid þǣre ilcan stīþnesse mid þǣre sēo wyrt þǣre eorþan clifode. Þus þæt þe unhrinenlic þūhte wearþ gewefen on dæghwāmlīc līf, dēagolnes geworht nytt.
Be ealdum wegum wegferendan sceoldon līnan līnes oþþe wulle tō þām þornigum stelum cnyttan, getrūwiende þæt sum stille gewilnung mihte bēon boren mid winde oþþe gehealdan mid þǣre wyrte byrstigum gefræge. On sumum tūnum wyrtruman wǣron gesodene tō lācnungdrence. Se stenc ārīsende of þām potte spræc regnþwogenra felda and gemynd handa delfendra þurh stānige molde. Þǣre wyrte andweardnes on þǣre worulde wæs stille wiþstandnes, andswaru giefen ān þām þe woldon rǣcan inn forþ ofer þā þornas.
Tōdæg man mæg wōrian brerd æmtiges feldes, sēcende þā wiþstandendan stelan for lȳtlum sprǣce tō settenne on ēagþyrlstān, cyn scyldes. Sǣd magon bēon gegaderod and gegrundan on melu tō rūmlicum bacenne, oþþe gebriwen swā wos þe swæcc openra hylla berþ. Þū meaht besm of his trumum stelum brūcan tō swāpenne þone þersceold clǣnne, oþþe þrǣd ealdes clāþes cnyttan tō wyrte þǣr twēgen pæþas crsiaþ, and lǣtan þīnne dēagolnes rīdan mid winde and regne.
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