Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ongs; and remarks that the gem-bearing belts and diadems of kings, and thevarious instruments of glory, were made from the tools ofiron. In Elfrics colloquy, the smith says, in alluding to themultiplicity of objects he could make: Whence theshare to the ploughman, or the goad, but for my art ?Whence to the fisherman an angle, or to the shoe-wyrhta (shoemaker) an awl, or to the sempstress a needle,but for my art ? And to this the other replies: Thosein thy smithery only give iron fire-sparks, the noise ofbeating hammers,
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ongs; and remarks that the gem-bearing belts and diadems of kings, and thevarious instruments of glory, were made from the tools ofiron. In Elfrics colloquy, the smith says, in alluding to themultiplicity of objects he could make: Whence theshare to the ploughman, or the goad, but for my art ?Whence to the fisherman an angle, or to the shoe-wyrhta (shoemaker) an awl, or to the sempstress a needle,but for my art ? And to this the other replies: Thosein thy smithery only give iron fire-sparks, the noise ofbeating hammers, and blowing bellows.^ Act. SS. August, vol. iii. p. 659. Aldhelm. De Laud. Virg. 298.^ MSS. Tiberias, A. 3. 35^ HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. We have selected two representations of the Anglo-Saxon Vulcan from ancient manuscripts in the Cottonianlibrary. The first (fig. 139) represents this worthy workingat an anvil, which, it is proper to note, has no beak or hammer he wields is not unlike those in use at thepresent day. In the compartment adjoining him, but.
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