Be þȳnnum lēohte þæs mōnan āhefþ hund his nosu tō nihtwinde, þā wulf færþ be him, ælc stæpe slāw be þǣm ungewissum pæþe. Þæs flōdes swīge mearcaþ þā ecge þǣr land slīdeþ tō wætere. Twēgen stīplas ārīsaþ, behealdende, ac hīe lȳtel ætīewaþ hwæt forþ ligeþ. Betwēonan him is se grund blāc and wendende, swelce sēo niht self ne mæge cēosan hwæt tō ætīewenne and hwæt tō dīegle tō healdenne.
Is feld būtan norþernum tūne þǣr se gaderung bīdeþ. Ælc stela biþ geswopen mid þǣm mōnan, standende nēah ætgædere, sǣ wāgindra hēafda þe hwistliaþ þonne se wind oferfærþ. On dæge fēdaþ þās feldas þone tūn. Menn gāþ þā furh, and waciaþ æfter þǣre wǣtan glitmunge þe morgen dēaw tācnaþ, and weorcende handa swēpaþ sicolas niþer, and gaderiaþ þæs gēares behāt on earmum. On nihte wierþ se ilca feld sceadwa stōw, sēo līne betwēonan furh and fōtpæþe āblended, hund and wulfes woruld. Ealde spell cweþaþ þæt þā wildostan swefnu wyrttrumaþ þǣr þās wyrta ǣr þiccost lāgon, and þæt þæs mōnan locung on þone feld dēþ þā līne betwēonan geþōhte and sōþe þynne.
Þæt corn of þissum feldum wierþ hlāf, se hlāf þe sitt on rūhre bēode innan cotlife, bewrigen mid gewefenum clāþe. Se clāþ, ānfeald ac strang, biþ geworht of þǣm þrǣdum þe æfter gaderunge lāfon, gesponnen on langum ǣfenum þonne se wind hrēose lēase stelan wiþ þone wāg. Hwīlum, on þǣm swīgan ǣr dægrēde, ārīst sum mann and tēah þā duru open ānlīce tō behealdanne þone mist wriþan ofer þā scēafede eorþan, and ongiet þā ealdan crætwegas þe ǣr fōron ofer þā feldas, ælc secc cornes met þæs trēowes and þæs līfes.
On ceastre cēapstōwe līniaþ seccas þā stōwa, sume tō bisgum cycenum, ōþre tō brēowærnum, and gȳt mā tō cēapmannum þāra hīrednama sind cūþe be ǣlcum ēawege. Se cēap is yldra þonne ǣnig mearc, and ælc handfyll tācnaþ þone ealdan cēap betwēonan frēcen and edlēane, þone formal þæs rēnes and þæs drȳgþes. Se stenc þe āstīhþ of wearmum nīwbacenum hlāfum on bæceres ēagþyrle gemyngaþ unārīmendlice tīda: lange dagas under heofone tō wīdum tō frōfre, niht gefylde mid feorres sceacena swēge and nēarran lēoþe frogga þe sittaþ on hreodum be strēame.
On sumum morgenum is se heofon niþer and þicce, and þæt lēoht þe fealþ on þone feld is līþe, nā ān þing ne ōþer. Sēo lyft stincþ eorþan and þæs scearpan gærses gemyndes forþgewitenra storma. Ǣceras ābīdaþ, scōs dēope gesette, tō metenne hwæþer se dæg bringe rēn oþþe sweotol, and wīf on þǣm nēhstan cotlife behealt þæt weder tō witanne hwonne hēo sette þone hlāfdāh be ēagþyrle, getrȳwende þæt sēo lyft milde sīe.
Tōdæg meaht þū gān swīgne weg be felde, and lǣtan þīne hand drīfan ofer hēafdum hēagra gærsena. Þū meaht dāh cnēdan on þīnre cycene, and þencan þāra handa þe þæt ilce dydon þurh cneorissa. Þū meaht gewefenne clāþ lecgan on þīne bēode æt ǣfne, oþþe dēopian on þǣm swīgan ǣr dægrēde and ongietan þē gelǣdne mid þǣm ungewissum lēohte þe dēþ ælcne stæpe tō āscunge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣte.
Lucky Color: Wheat — #F5DEB3Mearca þone pæþ þe se mōna ætīewþ, þēah hē ne sīe se eall, and lǣt þone gaderung þē gemyndgian swīges trēowes.