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Brigid, goddess of spring, blacksmiths, fertility, healing, and poetry; Gobannus, Gallo-Roman deity whose name means 'the smith'; Gofannon, Welsh god of blacksmithing, ale, architecture and building
For three days, he sought a place to build a great forge. In that forge he placed metals and started working, tending the magic fire with help of the slaves of Pohjola. On the first day, Ilmarinen looked down into the flames and saw that the metal had taken the form of a crossbow with a golden arch, a copper shaft and quarrel-tips of silver.
The name of his father appears as Esarg or Tuirbe Trágmar, the 'thrower of axes'. [6] Goibniu is often grouped together with Credne the silversmith and Luchta the carpenter as the Trí Dée Dána (three gods of art), who forged the weapons which the Tuath Dé used to battle the Fomorians.
War's great sword, the second of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides on a Red Horse is War, a great sword was given to him. ( Book of Revelation ) Goliath 's sword , which was used by David to decapitate the fallen giant, and then given to him by the priest Achimelech when he ran away from King Shaul .
Vulcan (Latin: Vulcanus, in archaically retained spelling also Volcanus, both pronounced [wʊɫˈkaːnʊs]) is the god of fire [1] including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. [2] The Vulcanalia was the annual festival held August 23 in ...
Draupnir multiplying itself The third gift — an enormous hammer (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.The ring Draupnir is visible among other creations by the Sons of Ivaldi.. In Norse mythology, Draupnir (Old Norse: [ˈdrɔupnez̠], "the dripper" [1]) is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night, eight new rings 'drip' from Draupnir, each one of the ...
In Norse mythology, Gleipnir is the third iron rope created by the Norse gods to bind the demon wolf Fenrir. The Gods had attempted to bind Fenrir twice before with huge chains of metal, the iron chains of Leyding and Dromi, which Fenrir had torn apart. Therefore, they commissioned the dwarves to forge a
The Theft of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1897. In Finnish mythology, the Sampo (pronounced) [1] is a magical device or object described in many different ways that was constructed by the blacksmith and inventor Ilmarinen and that brought riches and good fortune to its holder, akin to the horn of plenty (cornucopia) of Greek mythology.