Level up your smithing, craft some good armor and items, go do some other quests to level up your combat skills, then go back and mop the floor with the boss's face...
Or you could turn down the difficulty for the boss... you know, Bethesda did a very sloppy job in some parts of the balancing, and you could easily face a stupidly easy group of enemies in one room, and in the very next there could be a single enemy -even of the same type- that is broken-difficult...
The boss at Bleak Falls Barrow (I assume you run into that one) is indeed very hard - I cleared the rest of the dungeon on expert once, but after 6 deaths I decided to turn it down to novice just to get it over with and move on... No shame fiddling with the settings...
Oh, and in case you're playing a destruction mage: either cheat-level it or quit it while you still can - it's broken. With most of my perks into destro, it leveled to around 40 and on apprentice... the only way to actually kill anything harder than a skeleton or a lowly draugr was... to charge in with dual bound swords, screaming "Victory or Sovngard!!!" =_= It only gets -mildly- acceptable past mid-game...


