Ah, I see. I'm afraid there's no way you can beat that guy with skill alone when you have a character that weak, he has too much brute force.

Get to a minimum of level 40 and get some better equip before facing him again I would think.
Like I said, it took the best enchanted heavy armour available and one of the best swords available complete with 100 skill in everything to beat the guy... that was on full +100 difficulty though, if you set it to -100 you could probably beat him with less.