Mīmarōn af mäner ðē hōponing wāri in ðē westra ligið enði fana ðē sēo kumið
(“Remember, of men the true hope in the west lieth and from the sea cometh.”)
–Johannes fon Oschenforð’s Ðē Krīg af Athalstēnos (as found in an undated paraphrase of a manuscript commentary on the work and thence reconstructed)