Betwēonan tōdǣledum trēowum þǣre cartan standaþ twēgen līchaman, and wyrtūnes ecg betwēonan him. Nān hand ne styreþ tō ōþerre. Nān wæstm ne biþ geboden ne genumen. Þæs heahengles stefn on lēafum wierþ stillu, ungehīered, swā sēo lyft self þicce mid stilnesse. Þis is sēo stilnes ǣr dōme, weggelēt gȳt unofaren, sēo swīge on cycene ǣr se flīt ofer gȳt. On swilcum tīdum þyncaþ þā weallas self wacian, berende hæte and stilnesse sumeres æfterns æfter rēne, þonne sēo woruld healt hire orþ and þā lāmhrōftigla stēamiaþ.
Hīe standaþ on byrig þǣr ealde scōras rīsaþ. Ǣlc scōr is getimbrod of ofenbærndum clūdum, gehēapod mid geþylde, ǣlc geworht tō āþolienne þā gēartīda and þone līg hāmes. Þā handa þe hīe leddon forspildon heora glōfa, tigel æfter tigele, and scōpon heorþas tō oferlifienne geflitu and wintras. Þās tigla habbaþ gesewen gēar þonne strǣta fyllodon mid stence bærnendra pipora and lambes, þonne hīwan þrungon tōgædere on cycenum, stefnas rīsende and feallende, nǣfre fullīce hrīnende. Þēah heoldon þā þiccan weallas þā warmþe, ēac þā hwīle þe word heora weg forluron.
Bufan him, on muntūnum healfre worulde feorr, glōwiaþ ofnas gȳt mid hæte. Lāmene heorras bacaþ þone hlāf þe tōclēofan sceal ǣr dǣlunge, sēo rind open berstende tō ætīewenne þæt þe innan ligeþ. Se hlāf sitt ācōliende, gebæþod on hwītele on oferslage getimbrodum of þām ilcan bærndum clūdum, þām ilcan ealdan cræfte. Þǣr is gemynd on þissum stānum: raca tūna eft getimbrodra æfter līgum, wealla þe heoldon þonne stormas niþer cnyssodon. Ac ēac þā strengestan andweorc ne magon bōtian stilnesse þicce swā morter, ne magon gebrycgian þone feor þonne twēgen menn innweard hwirfaþ, eaxl wiþ eaxle, būtan tō rǣcenne ofer.
Æt middæge on strǣte wearmiaþ þā stānhīw gȳt of morgens sunnan. Cildra stefnas edlæcaþ betwēonan hūsum, ēhtende ǣlc ōþer forþ þe rǣwum ealdra ofena þǣr wyrhtan ǣr scōpon eorþan on libbendne rūm. Nēah, on lane, hlīneþ cēapmannes cræt wiþ weall, and se cēapere wīpaþ swāt of his brūwe, and bīdeþ þone dimman æfterns ryn. On swilcum wedere þyncþ sēo woruld þurhbacen. Hātheortnessa rīsaþ hrædlīce, and word magon drūgian ǣr hīe æfre bēon gecwedene, dūst on tungan.
On stilnesse þonne cēosa wuniaþ unworhte, is ā weg tō eft onginnenne. Mann mæg cnedan dāh tō hlāfe, and scieppan sum þing mid handum, and lætan þæs dæges tensunge hnescian on þām ryhtme. Mann mæg sittan on fordyre stæpe, tiglum wearmum under him, and dǣlan mēte oþþe ēac āne racu mid nēahgebūre, and gebrycgian þone feor þēah hit āne tīd sīe. Hit is mihtelīc tō clǣnsienne þone ealdan heorþ, and tō āfeormienne gæres wintras acxan tō gearwunge nīwre warmþe, oþþe tō gānne forþ þe cūþum rǣwe scōra and tō gemunenne þā timbreras þe worhton sīd be sīdan, ēac þonne nān word næs gecweden.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Fȳrrēad.
Lucky Color: FireBrick — #B22222On stillum cycenum and on sunbacenum strǣtum āþolaþ sum þing, and sēo strengu tōgæderes bīdeþ, stillu and fæst.