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  • Then said Regin, “Belike thou art well content therewith, hard master though thou be in smithying.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • He took the sword, and said — “Behold thy smithying, Regin!” and therewith smote it into the anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, and bade him forge a better.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Therewith went Sigurd to Regin, and bade him make a good sword thereof as he best might; Regin grew wroth thereat, but went into the smithy with the pieces of the sword, thinking well meanwhile that Sigurd pushed his head far enow into the matter of smithying.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • ‘It sounds like a hundred blacksmiths all smithying together,’ said Sam to Frodo.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • The Master of the Masters in the smithying craft was he;

    Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas 1894

  • And the witches answered, "When a prince of the Volsung race shall come who shall excel thee in the smithying craft, and to whom the All-Father shall give the Shining Hope as a helper, then the days of thy weary watching, shall cease."

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

  • The Master of the Masters in the smithying craft was he;

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

  • "Behold thy smithying, Regin!" and therewith smote it into the anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, and bade him forge a better.

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

  • Then said Regin, "Belike thou art well content therewith, hard master though thou be in smithying."

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

  • Therewith went Sigurd to Regin, and bade him make a good sword thereof as he best might; Regin grew wroth thereat, but went into the smithy with the pieces of the sword, thinking well meanwhile that Sigurd pushed his head far enow into the matter of smithying.

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

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