Sēo niht stent still, mid ānum strican tōclofen. Se ealda stānhēafod, āna wiþ heofon, þolode swā manige stormas, ac þis tīde is þæs wolcnes wundrung þunorslege þe þone gecorfenan oferslege feallan dēþ. On grunde ligeþ se gefeallena cynehelm betwēonan lāsum ceoslum and tōbrocenum stānum, lāf þæs hryres. Se lyft is scearp mid stence rēnes and sumes ealdes þinges, swā se līm self ūt orþode. Þæt þe hwīlum binnan fæstenne wæs gehȳded, dīeglu, gebed, oþþe wiþhealdene warnunga, āgȳt ofer hellan on þǣre færlīcan opennesse.
Under stīpele is se weg heard gedrēfed, swilc þe nis nā drȳge dūst ne smēþe lām, ac middelgrund mid gearhundum fōta gewered. On ealdum spellum fand se fērende þe þā mōras fōr helm on stānhūse, his hrōf mid līcne gesiwed, his heorþ ceald. Þā weallas, rūhe mid gemynde ceilfa, mihton edlæcan spell gefarenra storma. Ǣlc eald burgweall hæfþ cofa þǣr nān þing ne styreþ būtan tīd, þǣr fȳr is gemynd, and se āna gefēra is citel on sundron gesett tō tōweardnesse þe nǣfre ne cymþ. Morgen æfter cyrlþ mist lāg ofer feld, wēsten and þurhwunigendan gelīce bewriende, ecga sōftiende ac nǣfre fullīce þæt nīwe hīew þinga behȳdende.
Begeondan forwordenum weallum færeþ sēo ēa forþ swā ǣr, brȳtsena þæs gefarenan on stillum flōde berende. On dagum mid miste bewrogenum forlīest sēo woruld hire feornesse. Beorgas scrincaþ tō scuam, and cirmas feorra hræfna bīoþ forswolgene. On ceastre, hēah ofer strǣte, gaderiaþ hrōfas heofones hefignesse nēah. Se hrōftiglere, handa mid stāngrægum dūste gemearcode, ætstent tō wacienne þone hweorfendan heofon and geþencþ his fæderes cēap. On stillre cycene sitt ealdmōdor tēacocc ceoliende on borde. His hwīlum beorhte glæs is tō blēo gewedrodes seolfres ādyspod, edlæcende þā wolcnu þe eft tō brecenne þrēatiaþ. Sēo helfe is warm, anbīdende þæt sum mann eft cume and þone dæg riht gedō.
Hweorfunge weorc lǣfþ simle lāf. Se stānwyrhta gaderaþ gefeallene brȳtsena, hiera ecga of brice scearpe, and hē wundraþ hwelce hē healde, hwelce hē on þǣm ōþran rēne āspene. On sǣōfere gemyngaþ ceoslas mid unāmetenum flōdum gesmēþode þā þe þǣr gāþ þæt ǣlc storm sweotolaþ, tīehþ āweg, ætīewþ. On hryres wæcce þēnaþ þæs þurhwunigendan sculdurhrægl, hwīlum tō wlite gewefen, nū tō wearnienne þone cyle þe inn sīcþ þonne sēo sunne is gemynd and se heofon cealdlīce ungenemnod. Of cystes dēope fint flint, tō nēodum gehealdan, nīwne nyt on heorþes eftonǣlunge. Ūte bēodeþ se dæg būtan þæt weder þe hyþum and ūplandum gemǣne is, cyle, wǣta, nā fullīce rēn ac genōg tō settlanne eald dūst and tō ātēonne eorþstenc.
Tōdæg mæg man þone wind on gange mētan, þone lyft lǣtende þone mōd clǣnsian þæs þe nā leng ne stent. Hīe meahton ealdne croccan oþþe stān findan and be dura settan, þā hweorfunge him selfum mearciende. Mete gearwian of þȳ þe se hēdabūr hæfþ, stillum, mæg weorþian þæt þe æfter ūpāhefnesse belīfþ. Þerscold feormian, þone lāsan ceosol gadrian, oþþe þone stānweall bētan, ǣlc dǣd lecþ nīwne grund, nytlicne and ēaþelīcne, þȳ þe æfter cymþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Græg.
Lucky Color: Gray — #808080Lǣt þæt wēsten settlan, for þȳ þe þæt stent is nīwlīce gegolden.