Be-smiþian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

be-smiþian

to work in metal. Add :-- Nim þás næglas and heó besmiþian hát on þínes sunu brídle take these nails and order them to be set in thy son's bridle (cf. þú þás næglas hát . . . on his brídels dón, El. 1175. The Emperour dyde doo sette the nayles in his brydel, H. R. 158, 32), H. R. 17, 9. [O. H. Ger. pi-smidón includere. Cf. be-wyrcan. be-smiðian,be-smiþian