About Tweenside Way Poem by Douglas Scotney

On a word near the end
of Auden's 'The Cave Of Making'.

My etymological guess
is that 'dowly' is spoken
somewhere between Scotland,
where 'dowie' it is (or was) ,
and new and old London,
where 'dull' it is
and 'dol' it was.

After 'was',
I sleuthed 'Weland's Stithy',
from the same poem's beginning
and Auden's archetype for a workplace:
Weland was a blacksmith of Germanic myth;
from Old Norse, 'Stithy'
means 'anvil' and 'smithy'.