And death after sinning: but clear was it shown now,

Wide wotted of men, that e'en yet was a wreaker

Living after the loathly, a long while of time

After the battle-care, Grendel's own mother;

The woman, the monster-wife, minded her woe,

She who needs must in horror of waters be wonning,

The streams all a-cold, sithence Cain was become

For an edge-bane forsooth to his very own brother,

The own son of his father. Forth bann'd then he fared,

All marked by murder, from man's joy to flee,