On middan þǣre cartan sciepþ bēag micelne hring, ac tōdæg is hē unfull. His bend is tōslopen, swā se nīehsta cnotta slīde ǣr se plega geendode. Þā fēower libbendu nīetenu on þām hyrnum, lēo, earn, fearr, and mann, waciaþ, āhangene on tīde betwēonan fremes and nēahnesse. Sēo Woruld geheald mid willum, begangum, and gemynde belūces. Fægernes is on þingum ungedōnum, spell nā fullīce belocen.
Se dæg findeþ his ancer on andweorce: hȳd fæste āþenod ofer weorcbede, rīpende on lyfte gemetlices hȳdhūses, swā hēo bīde hire nīehstan hīwes. Gēarum ǣr wæs þis stōw wrixlunge, þǣr hȳda wendon of þām þe hīe wǣron tō þām þe hīe bēon mihton. Stenc þæs hȳdhūses wunaþ, and gemynd sealtes, rinde, smīces, and geþyldes sīgeþ on eall. Feorror andlang ēa þisse worulde screapodon, wǣton, and drȳcdon hȳdwyrhtan, heora handa trume, heora weorc nǣfre sōþlīce geendod. Se weg wæs ā nēah gedōn. Ǣlc dǣl wæs behāt, nā fullīce gefylled belt, glōf, oþþe sacc. On þissum is mǣgscipe tō þǣre cartan, se nīehsta bend forlǣten open.
Elles gǣþ þæt spell tō openum feldum þǣr se wind dūst berþ and sēo sunne þæt land bæcþ. Se grund toscinþ, and under him windaþ wyrttruman, and healdaþ þurh þā lange drȳge tīde. Hit is tīd anbīdunge: rēnes, þæs þe se ymbhwyrft belūce, þæs þe weorc þǣre eorþan gefylled sīe. Wōdmenn rīdaþ þurh þā anbīdunge, heora hūs of hȳdum geworht mid geþyldigum handum, heora scōs þynne gewērode mid ungefylledum farum. Ēac þā nīetenu, hlǣne and wacole, þyncaþ cunnan þā midde anbīdunge, gefēl tō healdenne lȳtel ǣr þām edciere.
Stǣr gǣþ þurh cēapstōwum and ceapstōwum, þǣr hȳda wiþ sealt oþþe corn sind gewrixlede. On cōlre sceade ceapstōwe lǣdaþ cēapmenn heora fingras ofer þone līþan brerd nīwes rolls, and āfandiaþ his strengu. Hīe cīdaþ æfter ānum mynet mā, ānum behāte mā, ā mid andgiete þæt ǣlc wrixl sum þing ungedōn forlǣt, sum þing tō fyllenne tō mergen. Se weorc onginnþ eft on dægrēd.
Āt hām edlǣcaþ dǣdlicu þing þisne ymbhwyrft. Ealde setl gebēt mid trumum clāþe, bōtas be þǣre dura bestōwene mid dūste þæs dæges, wel brōcen sacc hangende be his þwange, healf gefylled mid ǣrendgewritum þe sōna biþ gelǣd. Ēac se hlāf þe on þām bēode cōlaþ hæfþ rinde þe hȳde gemyngaþ, gemynd þæt wendung slāwe gelimpþ, and se nīehsta hrinenes næfre cymþ swā man wēnþ.
Gif þīne handa tōdæg unrōte sind, nim gewērodne gescȳ and āfeorma heora dūst, oþþe smire leþerne þwang oþ hē eft mēþe sīe. Wrīt ǣrendgewrit and slīp hit on bīdende sacc, and gearwa hit tō færeldes þe gȳt nā ongunnen is. Stand be þām ēagþȳrele þā hwīle þe nōntlēoht mēþgaþ and se lyft fylþ mid stence eorþan and feornesse, and læt þā stillan geþyld ungedōnra þinga ymb þē sittan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hȳdfealu.
Lucky Color: Tan — #D2B48CSe dæg bīdeþ on þām þerscolde, and þæt spell gǣþ forþ, for þȳ þe fulfremednes is on þǣre cearu, nā on þām cnottan.