On mearce þǣr wæter ǣr gemētte þone drȳgan strand restaþ twēgen croccas, heora innoþas īdele, heora mūþas gȳt opene tō heofone. Þā steorran bufan wuniaþ, feorre and ungewende, ac se mere niþer on hinder gǣþ, se grund ymbe hine gemearcod mid smælum emnum stānum. Sēo lyft is þynne and þæt gærs hæfþ hine underbæc ātogen. Swīge healdeþ þā ecge, and þæt land healdeþ gemynd þæs strēames þe hēr ābād, his endemestan þynnan scēate drȳgende on eorþan.
Nā feor fram swilcum mere, on ūplandum oþþe on fealdum ealdra beorga, licgaþ hām stāngrafwyrhtena, heora weorc āwriten on hrycgedum hēafodstānum gestæþelodum be wege. Þās stānas sind tōclofene of eorþan dēopum lāgum, borene tō timbrienne heorþas and þerscoldas, tō strangienne þā flōr under fōte and þone hrōf ofer reste. Heora andwlitan healdaþ þæs dæges lēoht oþþe þæs ǣfnes mist, and under sumum heofone þyncaþ hīe drincan þone swīgan, healdende hine tō þǣm slāwum tīdum. Tō lǣtenne finger faran be ecge ānnes þissra tōclofenra stāna is tō gemunenne bīdunge, þurhwununge, and þā geþyld þe scēap raw land on geheald.
Wegfarende fōron hwīlum ofer beorgas þǣr þās stānas lāgon tōstrēawode, fylgende hrycgum þurh langum cōlum dægrēdum. Hīe woldon gehīeran þone wind tēon ofer mōr and beorg, gesēon þæt weder gaderian, wolcnu drȳccende niþer, sēo lyft swā swīge þæt ēac þā sceap and þæt windbogene gærs þūhton healdan heora orþung. Ūt on openum brādnessum mihte mist settan, bewindende eall on blācum smalum duste. Þā þe þone weg cūþon woldon wacian æfter sumre stilnesse, þæs cynnes þe tācnode nā frēcen ac ābīdung: sēo woruld in ātēonde ǣr þǣm nīehstan þinge, se grund self healdende gemynd rēna and sweotolra nihta.
On ealdum tūnum slīdaþ hrōfas geworhte of þǣm ilcan heardan stāne ætgædere wiþ weder. Heora brādnessa lǣdaþ þone rēn, heora ecge scildiaþ þā oferslege. Cotlif biþ ætgædere gewefen under þissum strangum wrigelum, heora heorþas glōwende on ǣfne. Æt heorþsīde biþ eald cytel gesett, his sīdan ādulode mid tīde and swīgum brūce. Þā handa þe hine begāþ faraþ slāwe, care tō nāne āgēotenne, ælc styren lār hū tō þurhwunienne tīd drȳgþes oþþe ābīdunge. On ofne stent flāgstān corfen mid namum, gewita cneorissum þe wæter bǣron, þe cūþon ǣgþer þā giefe and þā ætbredunge.
Ēac on ceastre dōþ þās ātogenan stānas heora mearce: stæpas gesmēþode mid unārīmendum scōum, bencu on openum stede, þā stoccas ealdra bōchūsa. Hīe standaþ, fæste, hwæþer se dæg bringe drȳsme oþþe dust, hwæþer se stede sīe gefylled oþþe īdel. Heora andweardnes is unwliteg, þurhwuniende, healdende gemynd ealles wederes þe ofer hīe fōr. Þonne sēo niht sweotol biþ and sēo ceaster geswīgaþ, þyncaþ þā stānas gaderian þone feorran glit steorrena bufan, geedlǣcende heora geþyld.
Tōdæg mæg sum mann swāpan þæt dust of his þerscolde, and lǣtan handa gemunan þæt slāwe ānfealde geweorc þāra þe ǣr wǣron. Hē mæg in bringan dǣl tigelstānes tō fæstnienne blēd oþþe tō restenne cuppe, oþþe settan cytel on heorþ and bīdan þæt wæter wearmige. Ābīdende be stānbence oþþe swīgum hrōfe is rūm tō gemunenne þone swīgan æt meres ecge, and þā geþyld þe behōfaþ þonne þæt wæter hine underbæc tēah.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Lēoht stāngræg.
Lucky Color: LightSlateGray — #778899Þurhwuna þā ābīdung, for þā steorran sind ā bufan, and þæs stānes gemynd is swīge and lang.