"Hope halt te heorte hal, hwet-se þe flesch drehe; as me seið, "Ȝef hope nere, heorte tobreke.""

"Hwet is word bute wind?"

"Of þis boc redeð hwen ȝe beoð eise euche dei leasse oðer mare. Ich hopie þet hit | schal beon ow, ȝef ȝe hit redeð of…"

"The most important prose work of its period and moreover one of the most charming pieces in the whole of M[iddle] E[n…"

"The unknown author writes with a fresh and simple style, with a natural gift for description and character-drawing. I…"

"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"

"Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived."

"Behold," he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like rel…"

"Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that terrible place where I was. It went like this:"