Magical Bronze age Alchemist

The smith in the Bronze age was a very important and magical figure.

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• Smith
• bronze
• age
• Alchemist
• magic
• stone
• pagan
• heathen

[RiverBirch1967]

This is fascinating. I wonder if the skills, though highly prized and "weird to others" were kind of scary to them as well.

[SjpielseWolf]

I can imagine it would be. It's mysterious, they dont know how he does it. He seemingly has got some kind of power/knowledge others dont have lol. That's kind of scary if you can do something what nobody else can, like making swords out of stone LoL. Don't you think? :-D. I think they's even be scared if it were bunnies instead of swords... To them it probably would be just as logic (or unlogic). Even I am still amazed how its done LoL. But hey, I'm just simple like that :D

[zezt]

the Smithy. alchemist. fascinating video.

i am sure we dont look at computer whizkids as magicians, lol

[SjpielseWolf]

hahahaha indeedy, atleast I sure dont :-P

[EgholmViking]

@billygotgrove true :) but it might have been an oooooold story told from father to son and so on until it was written down, or atleast thats what i think

[billygotgrove]

Nah- by King Arthur's time, swords were either steel or more commonly iron.

[eatinginfants]

@MrMonkeybat you're probably right. time is the answer to many questions about the past. bronze intrigues me because it must have been the super-technology of its day. i wonder what kind of superstitions really surrounded bronze workers. what kind of power did they hold over the leaders of society? were they highly paid servants or loners approached with caution? were the miners also bronze workers, or were they privy to its secrets? things like that make me wonder

[MrMonkeybat]

@archdeaconj Most legends recycle bits from older ones.

[MrMonkeybat]

@eatinginfants My bet is it was discovered in a potters kiln. Lets decorated a a pot with these green stones, mm not quite the effect I was looking for chuck those shiny squiggles in the garbage. It took thousands of years for people making crude copper jewelry before useful bronze implements were developed.

[ManTheBush]

Im such a History Nerd. :p

[dreaminggirlish]

Thank you! I was looking and this was tagged on my subject. I learned something new tonight!

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

[archdeaconj]

To cast amd pull a bronze sword from a stone mould certainly required knowledge and skills that were not acquired overnight, but the result was spectacular. Is this the origin of King Arthurs Excalibur, asks the vid? Its an appealing idea, but isnt the age wrong? Bronze Age in Britain: 2000 BC 600 BC. Later came the Iron Age: 600 BC AD 50. These figures are approx. Nobody knows when Arther lived, if he lived at all, but 5th or 6th century AD is a fair guess.