Good ideas from both of you, thanks!
Anyway, I was wondering that "cast a whetstone across a room" is an odd expression, and that a whetstone stirrs in Thor's head is an even stranger thing. These sayings probably hide something that we cannot reconstruct at the moment.

If are there any Icelanders in the group, could you please tell us if are there any expressions in modern Icelandic involving hones and whetstones?

Thank you,
Stefano

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