Suddenly then
the God-cursed brute was creating havoc:
greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty men
from their resting places and rushed to his lair,
flushed up and inflamed from the raid,
blundering back with the butchered corpses.
– Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)
Lines 120-125: Grendel is a creature of excessive and murderous violence.