not-so-new art (VERY VIOLENT): grendel

mære mearcstapa, se þe moras heold, fen ond fæsten; felcynnes eard, wonsæli wer weardode hwile,

siþþan him scyppend forscrifen hæfde in Caines cynne. þone cwealm gewræc ece drihten, þæs þe he Abel slog;

ne gefeah he þære fæhðe, ac he hine feor forwræc, metod for þy mane, mancynne fram.

boundary crosser, held in the moors, in fen and fastness; in the land of monsterkind the unhappy wight had kept awhile,

since the Creator had condemned the kin of Cain. the Lord avenged the death of slain Abel;

he did not rejoice in his feud, but God banished him for his sin, far from mankind.

(from August 11)