English transltion
A creature from the depths was he / Barely was he obvious a man to me
A monster thinly cloaked in human form / From what creature's womb had it been torn?
What is this thing that I stand before? / Garbed in horn, and tooth, and claw
As tall as an oak, and as roughly hewn / No tempered blade could pierce him through
Skin like the dragon, grey armoured scale / And he moved as would, over hill and dale
Awoken from slumber by our revelry / He wrought slaughter and death as I never did see
How he split my kinfolk with his welted hands / With a savagery that none could withstand
Their flesh was riven and their skulls were rent / And it seemed like an age till his rage was spent
He retired to his lair with the flesh he tore / And dined on their wreckage and drank of the gore
We're in need of a hero from a distant shore / For it surely won't be long till he returns once more
Grendel I do name you, dead-born thing / Brought on an ill wind by a demons wing
Your life shall be taken by a warrior king / And of your violent end shall we proudly sing
A creature from the depths was he / Barely was he obvious a man to me
A monster thinly cloaked in human form / From what creature's womb had it been torn?
What is this thing that I stand before? / Garbed in horn, and tooth, and claw
As tall as an oak, and as roughly hewn / No tempered blade could pierce him through
Skin like the dragon, grey armoured scale / And he moved as would, over hill and dale
Awoken from slumber by our revelry / He wrought slaughter and death as I never did see
How he split my kinfolk with his welted hands / With a savagery that none could withstand
Their flesh was riven and their skulls were rent / And it seemed like an age till his rage was spent
He retired to his lair with the flesh he tore / And dined on their wreckage and drank of the gore
We're in need of a hero from a distant shore / For it surely won't be long till he returns once more
Grendel I do name you, dead-born thing / Brought on an ill wind by a demons wing
Your life shall be taken by a warrior king / And of your violent end shall we proudly sing