an avenger lurked and was still alive, grimly biding time. Grendel’s mother, monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs. 1260 She had been forced down into fearful waters, the cold depths, after Cain had killed his father’s son, felled his own brother with a sword. Branded an outlaw, marked by having murdered, he moved into the wilds, shunned company and joy.
