Mōnalēas niht ligeþ stille on mersce, and forswelgþ ymbhwyrft þe ǣr tōdǣldon beorg fram mere, þone wildan hund fram þǣm taman gefēran. On swilcre nihte is se pæþ betwēonan hreodum ungewiss, and sēo mearc betwēonan weard and bewacodum tōmilt on þǣm þicciendan miste. Þā stæpstānas fordwinan under wǣtre hȳde, and þæs lōmes stefn clipiende ofer wæter blendaþ on crīum feorra wulfa. Behindan þāra hreoda bife is sēo woruld bewrogen on þǣm ilcan swīgan þe hwīlum gedrehte þā stāngrafu æt ǣfne, þǣr wyrhtan hīe heora tōl āwurpon and hlyston æfter niþrum hūle windes on þǣm corfenum andwlitum.
On þissum tīdum scilt hrōf tigelstānes þā þe inne sind wiþ sifte cōles dēawes, þā ilcan tigela þe of ealdum beorgum wǣron ātogene þǣr līces līnan crēopaþ ofer þā ealdan wunda. Rēn drȳcþ wiþ þās scinglan, fæst and geornful, his fāc geedlǣcende ryhtm forlorenra fōtlāsta on stānsrǣtum æfter midre nihte. On feorran ārīst cēoles hiw wiþ þone ungebīgedan heofon, gehatted mid ānre culfran oþþe twām, heora feþera ādimmode mid sōte and tīde, behealdende mid unāreddum ēagum.
Būtan þǣm gehælde streceþ se weg, windende betwēonan stānwāgum þe forþgewitene handa timbrodon. Ælc hēafodstān is hefig mid gemynde mistigra morgena, þonne hyrdas lǣddon heora heorda þurh feldas gemearcode mid mēose and mistes swīgan. On ealdum tūnum be sǣ lōcedon fisceras hwīlum heora nett be lēohtfætes lēohte, heora scipu ūpātogene on strandum þe wǣron āstrēawode mid ceoslum deorcum mid sealte. Se sǣ self, under þissum heofonum, wierþ spægl uncwedenra dīegla, ȳþa fealdende stille ofer strandodum flotwuda and þām tōbrocenum scillum forgitenra þinga.
Innan sēoþ crocc on ofne, his hlæd hnesce hrēosiende. Se cōc rǣcþ æfter mortere corfenum of þǣm ilcan stāne swā þā feorran hrōfas, and grint drȳgne hleomoc and enebēam on smæl dust. Se heorþ is of stāne getimbrod, cōl tō hrīnenne, þyrelod mid mearcum hund wintra, healdende wearmnesse smēocendra bēama. On bēode ligeþ wullen hacele gefealden, gesponnen of sceapa flīese þe wǣron in ābroht of rēne, his webb þicce genōg tō āwendanne þā nihtlyft.
Sēo lyft ūte is þicce mid behāte cumendes wederes. Wolcnu hēapiaþ bufan, and behȳdaþ þā steorran, and þā wæterþēote be oferslegum fōþ þā forman dropan drȳsmes. Scōs forlæfene be duru drȳgaþ stīþe, heora ilas gemearcode mid lāfe gangwega þe fæst hwistliende drȳsme āþwōg. Hit is niht tō scyttelum belocenum and tō lēohtfatum getrimmum, tō hlystenne þæs rēnes rēdelse and þāra stāna dīeglan sprǣce.
Tōdæg ābīd under oferslegum and hlyst þǣm rēne on tigelum, oþþe grind wyrtgemang on stānfæte tō swæccenne þīnne ǣfenmete. Yr þīne fingras ofer ealdne tigelstān nēhstan hrōfes, oþþe bewind þē on hacele þe hæfþ manige tīda ābrocen. Ber ceosl on þīnum pohhan, ānne gesmēþodne mid ēa oþþe flōde, and gemyne þone swīgan stōwa þe wind and wæter āwēron.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Stāngræg.
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