Where does smithcraft come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

smithcraft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Inventors of Pastorage, Smith-craft, and Musick"
"Like Minerva, Brigit was a goddess of poetry and wisdom, and she had two sisters also called Brigit, who presided over leechcraft and smithcraft respectively."
"The villagers were counting on his smithcraft skills to produce the very best weaponry possible."

From Middle English smythcraft, from Old English smiþcræft, equivalent to smith + -craft.

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