i tend to agree with sili here, i don't think that was one of the Smiths of Muirthemne, just a smith: like a blacksmith or a locksmith gunsmith silversmith goldsmith flappersmith etc.
what? yeah, a smith that flaps. you never heard of that? oh.
:P
Seriously, though, on another subject, perhaps when Connacht went to assail the shrines, the Spider-Cultists fled and took the Smiths of Muirthemne captive into the Tain with them.
if you look at it that way then perhaps they are different groups of people. but of course there might be some piece of information to disprove this which i am not aware of so let me know; i can't stand this fog of ignorance.
::waves frantically at fog, which refuses to drift away from head:: damn you, fog! damn you!
: --SiliconDream
-Welly