Hēafod
On līclāre is þæt hēafod dēores se ceafllice dǣl (æfter līclārlicre legednesse) þe gewunelīce stent on þǣm brægne, ēagum, ēarum, þǣre nase, and þǣm mūþe (eall þāra helpiaþ maniga gefrēdnessa, swelce sihþ, gehīerness, stincung, and smæcc). Sumu ānfealdran dēor nabbaþ hēafod, ac manige twisīdemnettendas sōþlīce habbaþ swelc.
Folclīc hefigness[adihtan | ādihtan fruman]
Tō mannum, þæt hēafod and hūru se andwlita sind þā hēafodlican gesundriendan mearca betweox sundorlicum hādum for heora ēaðe gescēadendum mearcum swelce hǣres and ēagena bleoh, and nase, ge ēagena, ge mūðes gesceapp, rifelunga, and ōðru þing. Mennisce andwlitan sind ēaðe gescēadendlice mannum for heora brægnes fōreþoncum tō scēadenne betweox missenlicum andwlitigum mearcum. Þǣr mann sēo bemǣtende ungecūþ gecynd, ealle andwlitan þyncaþ tō wesenne nēan ful gelīce, and mennisc bearn sind līfiglīce geset tō oncnāwenne lytela ungelīcnessa on andwlitigum mearcum.
Hādas þā sind andgietfulran þonne sīe gewunelic sind hwīlum geēowod in biliþspellum tō habbenne māran hēafdu, tō wīsan tō tācnienne þæt hīe habbaþ māre brægn; in witancræftlicum lēasspellum, begeondeorþbūendas þe hæbbe grēat hēafod is oft getācniendlic swīðre andgietfulnesse. Beūtan þisse getācniendlicre ēowunge, sōþlīce habbaþ bētunga on fēlendseonulāre ēowod þæt sēo wyrcende fǣgness þæs brægnes ēowaþ þæt ungelīcnessa on medumre brægnes micelnesse ne sind nā gōd getācn micelnesse, gif hīe sīen tācn hire tō āhte, tōdāles on medumre andgietfulnesse þe þǣr sīe betweox twǣm mannum.[1]
Þā forgamolan Crēcas hæfdon wīsan tō bemetenne fægernesse þe wæs æfter þǣm "Gyldenan Andefene", þæs ān dǣl befēng metu þæs hēafdes.