Healfbeorht pæþ yrnþ betwēonan twām stīpelum, þǣr se sǣ orþaþ and eft on hinder gǣþ wiþ þæt land. Se hund beorcaþ, fæst and cūþ. Be him behealt se wulf mid wildum ēagum þæs flōdes wendende ecge. Sealt lyft āstīhþ and berþ āscunga, and ēac þāra stīpela stānas þyncaþ ungewisse, and bīdaþ þæs morgenes andsware. Se weg forþ is sōþ, ac ānlīce on dǣlum: glitmung on wætere, fōtlāst on lāme, and se swīge wind ǣr dægrēde. Þēos woruld nis īdel. Hēo gaderaþ lāstas, fiscscillan þe þæt wīcgenda wæter forlēt, forloren cnæpp þe glit on þǣm sande, and eald spon þe feoll on þā cycenflōr and læg under þæs scrīnes ecge.
On ealdum dagum meahton þā þe bǣron gehamerode platan and lȳtlu þing þone pæþ be þǣre sǣrīman mearcian, cēapmenn þe fōron ǣr sunnan ūpgange. Hīe beheoldon mōnanstrēamas and mēton þone frēcels be þæs ēas brimme, and sōhton ȳþa. Þā ealdan cēapmenn bewundon heora waru, spæglas and wīr and mynet, on līne and on elehȳde, and legdon hīe on pusan be blācum swammum, þāra hætta smēþe and cealde. On langum nihtum ēode þæs mōnan scīma mid him, gefēra on twēon and on wendinge. On þǣre ceastre cnysede se smiþ þurh þā smalan strǣta, and worhte dǣlas tō cuppum and tō spangum and tō þǣm smalan racentum þe belucon þā sweoras þāra pusa. Lȳtel crocc stōd be þǣm heorþe, and fēng dropum þā se cytel cōlode and forlēt his blācan scīnendan lāf.
Þæs Mōnan woruld is þynne, and hēo is mid āscungum ymblīcced. Hēr is lēoht swicdōm, līne ofer wæter oþþe pæþ betwēonan hreodum. Spelleras sprǣcon be þæs fisces hrædum scyte þe fordwan under þæs flōdes hȳde, oþþe be þæs foxes sceade þe slād behindan hege þā wolcen fōr forþ. On þǣre hyþe sæt se mist hwīlum on scipa bordum, and behȳdde þāra lēohtfata hiw and þā lȳtlan hengelas þāra tīdglæsa þe man on pohhan berþ. On þǣm beorgum þǣrbūtan stōdon beorcgrāfas ætgædere, and heora rind glitmude on ǣfne, and þæt gærs wæs wǣt mid dēawe. Wegfarende nāmon frōfor of tācnum: hring gedrȳcned on handa, eald spon tō styrenne slǣpdrenc, þrǣd fæste gewunden tō gehealdene gemynd. Innan mæg wīf bindan hire feax mid wrīþelse þe wæs ofcorfen of hire ealdmōdor gyftreāfe, and se clāþ gemanode nihta blisse and þone swīgan þe þǣre fylgde.
Ēac on wedre geedlǣcþ þēos woruld þā gesetenesse. Forst wierþ on þæs meres ecge, þynne ecg þe þū meaht mid fingre mearcian, ac nā fullīce gefōn. Sēo lyft cracaþ mid behāte wendinge, rēnes oþþe mistes oþþe þæs swīgan ǣr þǣm forman snāwe. On þǣm wyrtūne fōþ þāra lēafa underdǣl þā forman dropan, and sum mann cnēowlaþ and wendeþ stān, and biþ āfǣred for þæs ceafres hrycges glitmunge. Sēo niht dēopaþ, ac hwǣr is ā symle scīma: on bucce þe ūte læg, on wætere þe gaderode be þǣre strǣtecge, on panne be þǣm wæscfæte, þe heold gemynd þæs heofones.
Tōniht meaht þū ealdne spon feormian oþþæt hē scīne, oþþe mynet on handclāþe bewindan and on þīnum pohhan beran þā þū gæst. Sete lȳtelne spægl be þīnum bedde, þæt hē fō þæs mōnan locunge ǣr slǣpe. Wrīt dīegolne hyht and læg hine under þone cytel, and lǣt þone stēam þīne gewilnunge āhebban þā se dægrēd nēalǣcþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Seolfor.
Lucky Color: Silver — #C0C0C0Sēo healfgesewene woruld hæfþ lēoht on hire ecge, and ælc scīma healdeþ pæþ.