V. Grendel's Mother

She came then to Heorot, where the Ring-Danes slept throughout the hall. Misfortune befell the nobles when Grendel&rsquo;s mother burst in upon them. The terror was less only by so much as the strength of women, the war-terror of a wife, is less than an armed man&rsquo;s, when the bound sword, hammer-forged and stained with blood, the keen blade with its edge, cuts the boar on the helmet of the…