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Mike
@miketerhar.com

Is the anvil supposed to be a blessed stone of some sort?

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Elnath
@elnath1984.bsky.social

This may have since been debunked, but I remember one theory was that the "stone" was possibly the stone mold that a bronze sword was cast in. The sword being stuck in an anvil could just be a poor translation of it having been stuck in the thing that was used to make it.

Mike
@miketerhar.com

Well okay… “a great stone… and in the midst thereof was like an anvil of steel a foot on high, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point.”