Sēo carte ætīewþ þone mere mid his ecge onwrigene, wæterlīnan gesuncene, croccas āsette on sīde þā þæt hiw ūp locaþ and findeþ þone heofon ungewendne, feorrne. Hyht, nū, is gemynd forlæten mid fōtlāstum on duste. Under þǣm fōtum is sēo eorþe drȳge swā innoþ ealdre hȳde. Þis is sēo tīd þonne nihtes beorhta behāt nis genōg tō fyllenne þā fatu, and handa biþ forlæfene īdele. Sēo landscēawung nis unwestmbǣre, ānlīce bīdende ednīwunge, swā feld æfter gaderunge, þonne stelan nēah corfene biþ and se scēaf fōþ þā endemestan wearmnesse ǣfnes.
Sēo woruld biþ geworht of clāþe, rūhum ac cūþum, swā andweorc getelda āstreccedra under wēstensteorrum, oþþe secca hnesce āweredra mid ylde, healdende þæs gēares corn. Gemynd hēr biþ gemearcod on dagum gewinnes, þǣr hȳda biþ getannode mid sunnan and rēce, āhangene on wudenum henglum tō drȳgenne, heora stenc boren on winde. Þæs cēapmannes stōl æt ecge ēatūnes bēodeþ strican gehealdenes leþeres, hnesces and heardes, gearwes tō ilum oþþe sadelseccum. Ælc dǣl is gewitnes sumes ābrocenes, weorc sūpinge, screapunge, and drȳgunge, oþþæt sēo hȳd biþ gewend and weder mæg bēon eft gemēt.
Gefyrn fōron crætwegas ofer steppum and þurh beorggeat, berende cnuwas gehealdenra gōda. Þāra cēapmanna handa wǣron gemearcode and cāllode, næglas ymbhringede mid eorþan and bærces flacum of sūmacce and āce gebrocenum on heora cræfte. Cēapstōwa fyldon mid stence āhyrstedra hnutena, swētes hlāfes bestuntes mid gegrundenum hnutscellum, and gewefenra mattena geworhtra of hreodum gegaderodum of slāwum ēam. On æcerhūsum feor fram cēape is se cycenbēod fæst wudubord, sēo brādnes gesmēþod mid cneorissum elnboga and fata. Is windel āhyrstedes cornes gesett on borde, nēah hlāfcyste gescēapene of birce and gelīnede mid endebyrdlīcre sēowunge.
Weder ēac hæfþ his mōd. On tīde æfter storme is se grund cwicu mid stencum scrobes and dustes, þā wolcnu tōbrecende, sēo lyft forlæfen drȳge and cōl. Menn gāþ ūt, ātēonde scōs þe fōron þurh lām and dust, and sceawiaþ þone feld, nū gemarcodne mid þynnum cinum. Se wyrtūnhaga biþ gelōcod mid stricum ealdre hȳde, genæglod on stōwe manig gēar ǣr þonne tōl bræc and nāht elles æt handa wæs. Sēo woruld biþ geworht of þǣm þe þurhwunaþ, þǣm þe gelōcod and gebēt biþ, nīwe gebrocen and forþboren, hȳdum gewendum tō beltum, seccum gelōcodum tō corne, hlāfe geworhtum of þǣm þe se endemesta gaderung on his lāfe forlēt.
On þissum mōde meaht þū elan ealde scōs tō healdenne þā seamas strange. Þū meaht swāpan þā flōr and āstrīcan þone sand þe gaderode æt þerscolde, and lǣtan þīn mōd settan on þǣm þe wunaþ swīþor þonne on þǣm þe āweg is. Geþenc bacan hlāf on drȳgre pannan, behealdende hine bellan and bræsian, þæt weorc ǣgþer eald and andweard. Oþþe nim strican leþeres and wyrce ānfealdne bōcmærc, þrǣdende hine þurh bōc þe þū lufast, mearcigende þæt blæd tō þonne þā steorran eftcumaþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hȳdfealu.
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