Se pæþ under þǣm mōnan streceþ betwēonan twām stīpelum, his wundunga and his wendinga ætīewde ānlīce on dǣlum. Ælc fōtslege bringþ twēon, þā se dēaw gaderaþ on gærese and þā stānas glitiaþ mid nihtwǣte. Se feorra beorc þæs hundes andswaraþ þǣm wildran crīe þæs wulfes, heora hiw āworpen on healfsceade nēah þæs flōdes ecge. Hwæt forþ ligeþ mæg bēon gerād ac nā gesewen, þæt landscēawung bewrogen on þȳnnum ungewissum glēame.
Þā stīplas sind ealde, wenunga getimbrode of þǣm ilcum feldum þe hīe ymbstandaþ, þǣr līn wæs ǣr ācenned for his langum blācum stelum. Līnfeldas on foreweardum sumere biþ windes āstyrede and feþerlēoht, þā wyrta ūpārīsende on nēahum rǣwum ǣr gaderunge. On þǣm cōlostum tīdum ǣr dægrēde meaht þū nēah gehīeran þone hnescan cnyss handa þe þās stelan wyrcaþ, tōdǣlende þrǣd fram stelan, anginn weorces swā ealdes swā se webb self. Hwǣr on þǣm dene forþ ofer þā stīplas færþ ēa stille, his rīman geeggede mid þǣm wyrtum þāra þrǣdas weorþaþ ǣgþer dæghwāmlīc clāþ and rītlīc wrigels.
Innan niþrum cotlife sitt wīf on swīgan nīwes ǣfnes. Beforan hire is lengu clāþes, cōl tō hrīnenne, gesponnen and gewefen mid carfullum handum. Hēo wyrcþ be blācum glēame ryseles candeles, hire nǣdl fylgende fāce þe hēo cann be gemynde, ungewiss swā hit þyncþ under wendendum lēohte. Þæs clāþes hefe is genōg tō settenne hire mōd, and fæstnaþ hīe þēah sēo woruld ūte tōblāwe on gedwolan and on ālȳfednesse. Hēo geman spell wōrigendra þe fōron be nihte, berende pusa geworhte of þǣm ilcan andweorce, se clāþ scildende hīe wiþ ciele, berende stenc þāra felda and behāt edcierres.
Nēah wætere bētaþ fisceras heora nett, heora fingras fæste farende þurh lūcum and cnottum. Ælc nett is grīd þrǣda, strang and þēah hnesce, geworht tō giefenne and tō healdenne. Þāra fiscera stefnas sind niþre, hwīlum tōbrecende on hleahtor þā hīe reccaþ fremde gesihþa under þǣm mōnan: glitmung scilla, færlīc lēoma hrāgran fiþera, and se weg þe se flōd tēah on ryhtmum yldrum þonne gemynd. Þā nett, ǣr nīwe and unāhrined, beraþ nū lāstas sealtes and spelles. Ēac hēr, þǣr sēo woruld tōmilt on mist and ungewisnesse, þæt weorc wyrcende and bētende wunaþ.
On cēapstōwe licgaþ clāþweb on hēapum, gearu tō ceorfanne and tō scēapienne. Cēapwīf yrnþ hire handa ofer heora brādnesse, and gefēlþ þone swīgan behāt þurhwununge and care. Hēo geman hire ealdmōdor mētelclāþ, hire fæder scyrte, hire agenne gyftwrigels, ealle geworhte mid handum þe getrȳwedon þǣm fæstan weorce þe wendeþ feld tō þrǣde. Sume cēapmenn bycgaþ dǣlas tō nytweorcum: tō līnenne windel, tō bindenne bōc, tō bewindinge nīwcenned cild wiþ ciele. Ōþre sēcaþ dǣlas tō rīte: tō lecgenne on wēofode, tō āhōnne æt duru, oþþe tō mearcienne þæs gēares wending. Ēac lāfas findaþ heora stōwe, bētende eald hrægl oþþe hnesciende dēorne gemynd.
Tōniht mæg ǣnig gān þā mearce betwēonan gewisnesse and swefne. Þū meaht stæppan on þīne āgene cycene and smēþian clāþ tō morgenes hlāfe, oþþe ēagþyrl ontȳnan tō inlǣtenne stenc nihtlyfte farendre ofer feldum þǣr līn ǣr grēow. Gif þū ābīetst æt þīnum þerscolde on þǣm swīgan æfter midre nihte, meaht þū gehīeran þā blācan þrǣdas ealdra spella webbende þurh slǣp. Geþenc þæt þū wrīte ǣrend on gode bōcblæde, and lecge hit on pohhan oþþe on cyste swā behāt þē selfum. Oþþe bēt slite on sumum wel geborenum, and gemyne ealle þā sīþas þe hit geseah.
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