On dene under weligbōgum standaþ twēgen līchaman mid handum nēah hrīnendum, and se rūm betwēonan him is hnesce stilnes. Bufan drīfaþ wolcnu, heora undersīdan berende hefignesse rēnes gȳt unfeallenes. Þā Lufiendan on þisse tīde ne sind gebundene þurh geþoftscipe, ac āhangene þurh yldinge. Heora word sind stānas on mūþum, smēþe and hearde, nǣfre feorr ofer brerd hleaprende. Se wyrtūn ymb hīe is rīce mid mōrberigtrēowum, heora wæstm rīp æt ǣfen, blecende fingras þāra þe dyrstlǣcaþ tō gaderienne. Ac nāþer ne bīegþ tō birgenne, and hæfþ genōg tō sceawienne þone wæstm feallan, unāstyredne.
On ealdum cycenum stent se mortere mid his pestle, bēgen gesnidene of basalte, hefige and unþȳnne. Hēr habbaþ hīwan wyrtgemang gegrundene on stilnesse ǣr dægrēd, se swēg edlǣcende on rūmum þǣr dīegolnessa gaderiaþ on hyrnum. On þissum tīdum orþaþ þæt hūs on slāwum, gemetenum ryhtmum, and underfēhþ warmþe heorþes þe birnþ lāg þurh þā lengestan tīda. Col, gehēapod on windlum æt dura, behāt hæte ac wunaþ unhrinen on heorþe, bīdende þæs dōmes tō ontendanne hine. Swā bīdaþ ēac Þā Lufiendan, standende æt heora āgenum unontendum fȳre.
On feorrum wegum fōron cēapmenn ǣr on fēreltum under nīwum mōnan. Bufan him drāf se heofon nēah, and sēo woruld þyncþ endlēas. Heora olfendas bǣron gelæccode cysta gefyllede mid blæcsticcum, dēorum for heora dēopnesse and fæstnesse. Wrīteras bidedon on lēohtfate æfter þissum māþmum, langiende tō settanne behāt and wrace on bōcfelle, word gemearcod tō gebrycgienne feor and þēah gehæfd onbæc þurh bifigendum handum. Blæchornas stōdon gearwe, ac oft hōfode se pinsel, and se ǣresta strica næs nǣfre geworht. Ǣrend unwriten, foreweard uninseglod, āþ gecweden ānum on mōde: þās sind þā hīw þe ungewissnes nimþ swā niht forþ streceþ.
Begeondan byrig rīsaþ fȳrbeorges clifu bufan ȳþum, heora andwlitan bestrīcene mid glæsenum āddrum. On þissum sceadwum drīfaþ wyrtruman þæs licoriswyrtes dēope on behȳdede moldan, and tēoþ strengþe of þām þe mǣst ne magon geseon. Hēr, cweþaþ ealde racan, ceorfon lufiend tōdǣlede þurh gelimp heora naman on obsidiansceardum, dīegolnessa gesealde innan eorþan. Se stān self is scearpra þonne gemynd, mihtelīc tō snīþenne oþþe tō scildenne, æfter þǣre handa þe hine hielt. Sumum sind þās dǣlas tācn behȳded on cedercyste, nǣfre tō ætīewenne. Ōþrum sind hīe hālsotācn geboren æt þrotan, sēo ecg mynegung cēosa unworhtra.
On wederwīsdōme is sēo stilnes ǣr storme cūþ swā þæs hræmnes tīd, þonne ēac se wind healt his orþ. Ēagþȳrelu sind belocen, dura ābolte, and on nearwum lanum wielcaþ wildecattas wiþ scōrhwerum, heora scēadwa gemengde intō nihte. Sēo woruld gaderaþ hīe self, gearu on þerscolde styrenesse, and þēah unāstyred. On swilcre stilnesse hlystaþ lufiend and uncuþe gelīce æfter þām þe nīehst cymþ, ungewisse hwæþer se rēn feallan wile oþþe uncweden forþgān.
Tōniht mæg mann tēon þone basaltenan mortere of scele, and grindan anissǣd mid care, and lætan þæs pestles ryhtm smēþian bewundene geþōhtas. On healfum lēohte mæg ǣrend bēon ongunnen, mid stillum willan geblæcod þēah gȳt unsendod. Oþþe, gangende on wyrtūne æt ǣfen, magon feallene mōrberige bēon gegaderode on clāþe, handa ane tīd geblecede þurh heora stillan wæstm. Þonne se wind rīseþ, mæg ēagþȳrel bēon ontȳned genōg tō fōnne stenc feorres rēnes, behātende hweorfunge swā hwæþer swā mann gearu sīe oþþe nā.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
Lucky Color: Black — #000000Ēac on stilnesse gaderaþ sum þing on worulde his strengþe, and læt yldinge weorþan stillu hīw anbīdunge, rīce mid behāte.