Sēo carte hwearfaþ, and sēo niht wierþ dīegol and wendende. Se ealda stānbrycg biþ forloren behindan þǣm weaxendan miste, and þæs hundes cūþe beorc biþ forswolgen mid þæs ēarīman geedlǣcendum swīgan. Þǣr se wulf ǣr lāt on sceade, wunaþ ānlīce wǣt ymbhwyrft, swelce þæt nīeten sīe ādīglod on merschreod and on þā scealdan polas þe gaderiaþ under wiligum. Sēo woruld is tōmolten on swīgan swā dēopne þæt ēac se wind þyncþ ābīdan. Ūt on pæþe is se mōna bewrogen, wolcnu fæste ātogene, and se tōdāl betwēonan wilde and tame biþ gedrȳcned on þā ilcan wǣtan eorþan.
On swilcre landscēawunge nimþ eall geþyld tigelstānes. Þā hrōftigela on forlætenum cotlife nēah wæteres ecge habbaþ ābrocen tēontig gēara rēnes and forstes, heora rūhan andwlitan slīpore mid dēawe and mid gemynde ealdra fōtlāsta. Stānwyrhtan hōfon hwīlum þās stānas of stāngrafe corfenum on beorgsīde, ælcne mid handa tōclofenne and gesettne on carfullum rǣwum, gemynt tō berenne hefe tīda and cneorissa fære. Se ilca stān līnaþ þone ealdan tūnwyl, his sinewealt lippe gesmēþod mid þūsend handa hrīnenne, ælc niþer lǣtende bucc, ūpātēonde spægl þæs wolcnodan heofones. Æt ǣfne wunedon cild tō drȳcenne heora handa tō þǣm cōlan rīme, costnigende ōþer tō hlystenne hwistlunga on þǣm deorcan wætere niþer, gelȳfende þæt se wyl heolde ealde dīeglu on his cōlum dēopum.
Nēah forþ ofer þæt cotlif is se beorgsīde gebrocen mid lāfum pæþes þe hyrdas ǣr brēacen. On mistigum morgenum gaderodon sceap be his unemnum ecgum, heora wull hefig mid dropum, heora fære swīge būton þǣm līþan cnysse heora hōfa on þǣre gepæþedan eorþan. On swīgum wedre reste þæs hyrdes crycc wiþ dǣl flāgstānes þe līc speccode, nū oferlocod mid fearne and netelum. Hwīlum, þonne se mist niþer sitt, ætīewaþ ymbhwyrft ealdra tōla: forgitene meotel, dǣl sades, forlæfen mid þǣm þe scēopon þæs beorges bān on geheald and heorþ.
On dagum þonne sēo lyft þicce biþ mid miste and nāht gewis biþ, hine se tūn on geheald: wīf tēoþ hefige sculdorhrægl ofer sculdru, gewefen mid rūhum þrǣdum gesponnenum of heardum beorgsceapum. Be fȳre hlymþ se cytel, his gebroceda tīnen lippe healdende wearmnesse tēes and frōfor handa gebīgedra ymbe lāmenum cuppum. Se heorþ self biþ ymbhringed mid snædum ātogenes stānes, ælc gemynd gewinnes, ætgædere gelegd on hyhte tō healdanne þæt dēorc ūte. On swilcum nihtum gedafenaþ tō onbærnenne lēohtfæt and settan hit on ēagþyrle, bēacen wegfarendum þe heora weg cēosaþ þurh þæt ungewisse dēorc, heora scōs sincende on þone mēosigan rēnhefigan pæþ.
Sind wegas tō gemētenne þās edcierendan niht: gān þone lane on swīgan æfter þǣm endemestan rēne, ābīdan tō settanne handa on þone cōlan stān þæs wylles, oþþe sittan be ēagþyrle mid sculdorhrægle nēah ātogenum, hlysnende æfter feorres ūles clipunge. Mann mæg cytel settan tō weallenne and behealdan þone stēam wriþan and fordwinan, oþþe gedrȳcan fundenne stān on þone heorþ swā swīge gemynd þāra þe þone pæþ ǣr scēopon.
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