The Woes and Their High Renown

Þā wēan wǣron þā þe ne leren ne mihton of gēohhwyrft, and þā þe swiðe gedōn in wiþerweard, on woruldstrēam, swāðeah gemynd þǣre gemærsungas hēan, and īepne cīepan. And hēo hēaðu beþrowen þōrfare tō stāfne.

The woes were those that could not be learned from the great wheel, and those who acted strongly in opposition, in the stream of the world, still remembering the high renown, and striving to rise. And she deemed it necessary to go beyond.