In my novel, The Grim Girl's Gallowglass, this metered ode is written by a faery poet named Brighid. In pre-Christian Irish mythology, Brigid (spelled differently) was a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a supernatural race. She was the goddess "whom poets adored."
"Grendel's Aunt" follows a hero named Hymm who transacts a business deal with Dwenndis, aunt of the monster Grendel, from Beowulf. Part 1 is located here. And below are the next four stanzas:
“My quest is to locate a monster for hire
to increase demand for my skill.
This troll, he will travel to Mundt to attack
and to pillage their daughters on Daffodil Hill, then
I'll strode in to save them, and values for peace
I'll instill as he strikes for the kill.”
At this, Dwenndis tapped on her fingers and thought,
as her thumb feckly fondled her chin.
“Peace is a problem for bankers and kings,
their advisers wage war for the wages it brings.
A treaty creates unemployment for knights
and perpetuates rage in the mages.
“My nephew might fit” she continued to spit,
“to supply your demand for a brute.”
Now, this nephew in question, nefarious Grendel,
the seed of her sister descendant of Cain,
was a monster whose drool filled a marsh full of moule
and whose breath spored infective murrain.
“Where can I find him? He sounds just the part!”
shouted Hymm, now excited to meet him.
So they trudged themselves down into bowels of miry
and boot-squished through foul-smelling swamps of perspiry.
The fetidness beckoned, of Grendel, that knave, and
they found him asleep in his cave.
Fairy photo courtesy pixabay.com.