Even fewer references, of course. We’re in a time when making steel is artisanry: literal ages before it could be manufactured.
• 5.055 Gnaws iron, bites steel;
• 11.019 and the steel heads broke or bent like lead.
• 12.096 and strength of triple steel.
• 13.037 strengthened beneath with hoops of steel,
• 17.031 in a hauberk of steel mail
• 17.054 goblins of huge size with scimitars of steel.
[…] This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain […]
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