They who that horn-house should be a-holding,

All men but one man: to men was that known,

That them indeed might not, since will'd not the Maker,

The scather unceasing drag off 'neath the shadow;

But he ever watching in wrath 'gainst the wroth one

Mood-swollen abided the battle-mote ever.

[ XII. GRENDEL COMETH INTO HART: OF THE STRIFE BETWIXT HIM AND BEOWULF.]

Came then from the moor-land, all under the mist-bents,

Grendel a-going there, bearing God's anger.

The scather the ill one was minded of mankind