On þǣre cartan rīdeþ cild strangre mȳran, earmas wīde opene, þurh feld þe sunnanblōstmas ymbsettaþ. Þā sunnanblōstmas standaþ hēahe, hiera ansīena wendende tō fylgenne þǣre warmþe þe ofer þæt land gytt. Behindan him met ān scort stānweall þā līne betwēonan openum felde and ymbhwyrfte, and hē ætīewþ þæt sēo woruld is eft gesceapen and gemearcod. Þǣr þinga ecg wæs hwīlum on sceade gehȳded, þǣr is nū ǣlc blæd and ǣlc healm sweotol, ǣlc wyrt mid lēohte gemearcod. Sēo tīd tō rǣdenne hwæt begeondan ligeþ is geendod. Þæs feldes ūtmearc is mid fæstum handum ādragen, se hærfest gearu, þæs tīman weorc eall on gesihþe gegaderod.
Of ealdum dagum āmetton þās feldas welan and līf tūna. Sēo wyrt, of handfulle cornes geweaxen þe on eorþan wæs gedrēfed æfter þām flōdwæterum oþþe æfter lenctenes þāwe, wearþ gemet ānes gēares wyrde. On ealdum spellum mǣnde scēaf þe wīf on hrycge hām bær gesunde wintras and fulle discas. Be Egipta ēam, on þǣm drȳgum lyfte þæs ēastlandes, ofer þā endelēasan emnettu þe tō feorrum ymbhwyrftum licgaþ, wæs se hærfest se heng þe ealle hyhtas on wendon. Hēr hnigaþ þā hefigan hēafdu swā on þancunge, and se belifna healm þe behindan belīfþ biþ gegaderod tō beddinge, tō windlum, oþþe tō hrōfa þecunge. Þæt þe bufan eorþan stent is mete līchaman and gāstes. Þæt þe under belīfþ cnytt þā eorþan tōgædere, and hit hielt hīe wiþ þone wind.
On wīdum landum hangodon lȳtle tūnas on tīda hweorfunge, on sīcles and on sīþes swege, on cratum þe tō bernernum urnon ǣr þǣm forman storme. Mylenas ārison be stillum strēamum, hiera stānas grindende þæt melu þe sceolde hlāf weorþan. On norþernum ūtlandum, þǣr sumor is scort cuma, wæs ǣlc sǣd þe man sēow and rīpte geteled, ǣlc hlāf intinga tō blisse. Se ymbhwyrft plantunge, anbīdes, and rīpinge wæs wīse þe nēahgebūras tōgædere band, hiera wyrda ūpāstigende mid þæs cornes flōde.
Innan hāmes wunaþ þæs feldes gemynd. Wuduboll, gesmēþod of cneorda handum þe dāh cneddon. Besma of healme, dūst of heorþe āfeormiende. Sacc on sundron gesett tō healdenne þæs ōþres dæges mete, his mūþ mid twīne gebunden, his innod wæstm mōnþa sunnan and geswinces. On cealdum morgenum byleþ citel on þǣm ofne, and hē sent grūtes stenc þurh þā cycene, still gemynd feorra felda and þæs geswinces þe hīe tō bēode brōhte. Ǣlc brȳtsen, ǣlc belifen cæf, biþ gebrocen. Nān þing nis forloren þonne se hærfest biþ geweorþod.
Tōdæg meaht þū hlāf mid handum bacan, and þæs dāges slāwe risan lǣtan þæs feldes geþyldige weaxunge edlæcan. Feorma þīnne flōr, ǣlc strāc gemynd rīpinge. Gā be ecge feldes oþþe plegstōwe, and waca hū caru hire mearc on þǣm lande lǣfþ. Þanca on þīnum bēode, and gemyne hū ǣlc mete is āwyrtwalod on grunde þe hwīlum tōm þūhte, and nū full standeþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣte.
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