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Anvil

Anvil translated from its early root anfilte roughly means “build-on” — the object which the smith builds things on. The anvil is the altar at which the smith shapes the world; it has a kind of magical appeal. It is solid and massive. It is a symbol of weight and …

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Jake Powning March 16, 2014 March 16, 2014Musings anvil, blacksmith, etymology of anvil, history of smithing, iron age, Jake Powning, swordsmith, swordsmith's anvil

Into the West

I wake after dozing and for a moment the raindrop crawling sideways across the window is a sleep-blurred nonsense. Below I see the crumpled mountain world of the Rockies folding into the Sierra Nevadas. I look over lakes of salt and brown jagged emptiness and imagine what it must have …

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Jake Powning November 3, 2013 January 16, 2014Musings axe, hammerin, iron age, migration period, sax, seax, smith moot, Viking Age
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