On þǣre cartan hwerfþ sēo gebēagode anlīcnes, ac se hring nis nā belocen. Þā lāweras tōgāþ, and þǣre plegestran fōt hōfaþ bufan þām grunde, and næfre fullīce onstæpþ. Se cnotta on heortan þæs bēages is slæc, swā behāt nēah gehealden of þǣre handa slīde. Þis is sēo woruld, nā swā stōw nīehstes siges, ac swā feld nēahnessa and þerscolda, se lyft lȳtel ǣr se storm brice, oþþe sēo tīd þonne færeld geendaþ and þǣre burge stīpelas gȳt būtan gesihþe sind. Hēr is cyme ylded, fulfremednes āhangen, and sēo woruld self nis nā fæst trendel, ac mā swā hlīþtūn gesett wiþ þone rīm, his ealdan tigelan healdende spell langunge and ungedōnra lēoþa.
Þæt tūn mihte bēon gefunden on hrycge Tuscanie, getimbrod of þǣre eorþan þe ǣr under Etrusca scōn læg. On midre nōntīde edlǣcaþ belle ofer elegrāfum, and þā ceapstōwa sind warme under fōtum. Lām of þām hlīþum gedolfen biþ gescapen tō tigelum hrofum and tō croccum wīnes. Þǣre burge nama cymþ tō mǣnenne þā molde selfe under hire bogum, molde þe ofer gēara is geworht tō dēagum līmwyrhtum and tō glæsum þāra fata þe niþer windigum wegum faraþ. Sume secgaþ þæt þā wīf þe ǣrest leornodon þās ōcerclūdas tō grindenne dydon swā on stilnesse dægrēdes, heora handa gemearcode mid geþylde and mid gemynde, þæt dust ārīsende on lyfte þā hwīle þe þæs dæges hlāf bacode on ofnum þe mid þǣre ilcan eorþan wǣron gelīnode.
Weder on swilcre stōwe is seldan līþe, ealles æt ende sumeres. Se wind āhefþ dūst, se heofon þrēataþ, and þunor gǣþ ofer þām feldum. Rēn cymþ mid fǣrlicre mægene, and flēdeþ þā wegas, and lǣfþ strīcan on þām weallum, and fylþ þā undernūsa. Eorþtilian efstaþ tō wrēonne þā wīnberian and tō bētenne þā lēcas on þām tigelhrofum, and witon þæt geþyld nū, anbīdung oþ se storm forgān sīe, hærfest siþþan mǣneþ. Þā hwīle þe se storm wēdeþ, hleowiaþ wegfarende under bogum, handa bewundene ymb cuppan, and waciaþ þæt wæter nīwe rīþas þurh þā lǣmena lanan ceorfan. Ēac inne wunaþ gefēl nēahnesse, þā hwīle þe lyftas þurh scyttelsas slīdaþ and stenc gebrǣddra cystena mængeþ wiþ þām wǣtan.
On þām hūse cræftes wendeþ lāmwyrhte clūd eorþan betwēonan hire folmum. Se hwēol hwerfþ, and se lām ārīst, nā gȳt fæt ac nēalǣcende him, hire þūma smēþende þone rīman þā hwīle þe se hīw bifgaþ mid hefignesse his āgenre wēne. On þǣre bēode sind tigelas geare tō þām ofne, ǣlc gemearcod mid tācne wyrhtan, bīdende fȳres þe heora spell fæstnie. Gehende rǣwaþ cild æcernas and glade stānas on þām ēagþȳrelsetle, and setteþ hīe on hring, and forlǣt ānne wanan openne tō edciere frēondes. Se ungedōna hring is stillu tācn hyhtes: behāt þǣre worulde, ætstent.
Tō ārianne þissum dæge meaht þū hlāf cnēdan mid þǣre ilcan cearu swā lām tō scieppanne, and þā warmþe on þīnum handum gefēlan. Þū meaht þone langan weg hām gān, and bīdan æt getimbre oþþe æt ealdum tigelwealle, and hrīnan þone rūhan brerd, and geþencan handa ǣr þīnum. Cunn ǣrendgewrit wrītan þe þū nǣfre fullīce geendast, and læt þīn word wunian mā þonne belūcan. Oþþe, on þǣre cycene, hrēr croccan mid wudenan spone, and gemun þæt ǣlc mēl mearcaþ ǣgþer ende and anginn.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Eorþbrūn.
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