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Volunder Use In German Mythology

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As I stared into the raging fire I felt the pulsing heat of it on my skin, patiently waiting for the metal to get to the right temperature, after what felt like hours I started to hammer out the metal but with every strike sweat poured out of my body the weight of the hammer felt like a ton when it was only 10 lb, then I looked up to wipe my brow of sweat, now realizing it was the middle of the night so I set the next iron bar in forge and added some coal then turned back to my work, I picked up the sword and set it in a pot of oil for a split second hardening the metal as I poled it out the blade was on fire at first I was a little spooked but then as the flame burnt out the sword was a tinted blue the and wondered what is the king going …show more content…

Along with Hephaestus there's blacksmithing god named Volundr/Wayland in german mythology he is known as Wayland and he is normally depicted in his workshop surrounded by tools and furnaces or holding onto a bird flying away from his royal captors trying to abuse his talents/skills for their own personal uses like weapons and armour for their soldiers, another depiction is Volunder who was captured by the King Niðhad in Nerike in his sleep and was to be held at the island of Sævarstöð and was forced to create things for the king one day the king's sons visited …show more content…

The Eiffel tower is made of a material called wrought iron/pudding iron it is a mixture of iron ore and 0.08percent carbon which is a combination of coal and iron put into a bloomer pretty much a small forge. The Eiffel tower was built by a company called Gustave which was named after the owner of the company that signed the contract to create the Eiffel tower the name of the man was Gustave Eiffel who introduced the idea during the world fair of 1889. The tower weighs about 10,100 lb but contains about 7,000 metric tons of pudding iron/wrought iron, But that was just in the planning stage it took thirty years of his life to building the actual tower. Although during the world fair of 1886 Gustave Eiffel introduce the idea of the statue of liberty the origin of the statue of liberty is to celebrate the alliance between America and France during the revolutionary war the actual statue of liberty was created by a man named Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi but the metal framework was made by Gustave Eiffel that was just under the copper coat the statue took about 9 years to build, Gustave started working on the statue in 1885 which went entail 1894 but they had to take it apart into about 340 pieces to fit it on boats to send it to America but then it took 4 months to rebuild. Following the Eiffel tower the iron pillar of Delhi has been around since 375 BC that is roughly 2392 years old, but

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