The extensive taboos and various restrictions surrounding the smithy and the exercise of metalworking are described in detail.
Finally, a smithy is not complete without a big whetstone (nkhu).
The medieval smithy and the post-medieval basement correspond to a border dividing two deep and narrow plots (396a-b).
People do not sit with crossed legs in the smithy, because that is just the way it is done.
Hauptmann's third and fourth acts take place in a mountain smithy, but the fifth and final act is set elsewhere and would have required a stage transformation in mid-course.
Yet his is the only smithy within a very large area.
It had been the nation's smithy in two world wars.
The old smithy has been restored and is now occupied by a skilled metalworker who makes all sorts of things on the forge.
