Plain was it made and published abroad among men that an avenger to succeed their foe live yet long while after that woeful strife — Grendel’s mother, ogress, fierce destroyer in the form of woman. Misery was in her heart, she who must abide in the dreadful waters and the cold streams, since Cain with the sword became the slayer of his only brother, his kinsman by his father’s blood. Thereafter he departed an outlaw branded with murder, shunning the mirth of men, abiding in the wilderness (J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, 49).