I feel your pain though. There was a time I soloed a dragon with a low level character. So proud of myself. Then I took a step backwards and fell off a cliff.
Lol, you could've had one beautiful epitaph on the grave of your character
*Alduin's worst enemy had braved many a danger, until he killed the last forsworn nay-sayer. Unable to foresee the coming of a new hero stranger he finally fell to the Mudcrab Dragonbornslayer*
I was fighting with a group of powerful forsworn near markarth when I got hit by an arrow (no it wasn't to the knee) that did substantial amount of damage to my health, and just before I could heal myself a damn http://youtu.be/Iu9MKu2YLj4 that caused me to die! The audacity is that the little turd walked right over my body like a boss! Too bad I didn't get this on video because it would've been one hell of a funny moment.
How on earth can I explain my death to the people in sovngarde?
Certain mudcrabs are deceptively tough in this game. Smaller ones can be one-shot, but the normal sized, at lower levels, can take a surprising amount of beating before they go down.
...I've been killed by mudcrab's 3 times, at a low level I learned to stop stabbing the giant mudcrabs because they could kill me before I even realize, the reason they were killing me is becaus I never look at my health bar while fighting mudcrabs.