"My chief" said Asterix, entering the hut, "I wish to present our village's greatest hero" and with that the Doctor entered, bowing. He looked up and saw the chief for the first time. "Goodness me" he said, "You've grown some!" On a chair at the top of a ladder sat a very rotund person. "Last time I saw you, you very only so high!" and made a gesture level with his knees.
"Indeed I have" said the Chief, "mostly outwards," he added. Claudiminix entered the hut and bowed politely as Asterix introduced him. Just then the bard appeared. "I will now sing a song of welcome"
The hut emptied as quickly as a lighting bolt, save for Turlough who waited for the bard to start to sing, then wished he hadn't as the bard's singing was awful.
Asterix asked if Turlough and Claudiminix would like to explore the village. They agreed and their first port of call was the blacksmiths. What they saw amazed them. All three blacksmiths were working the iron in conventional ways but using unconventional methods. Their bare hands. One was hammering a sword into shape, another was working with a lump of stone to make a mould and a third was bending a long piece of iron like it was elastic.
"Watch out below" shouted a Gaul and from nowhere, lumps of wood started to fall into a nearby cart. Turlough and Claudiminix looked up and saw a man chopping a tree again with his bare hands. After a few minutes the cart was full and Asterix came up. "Take those to the dolmen, would you?" asked the woodsman. "Okay!" said Asterix and charged off carrying at least a good ton of wood behind him.
"Come along Obelix!" said another villager, this time holding up a menhir, "this side of Samedin!" Obelix arrived carrying two menhirs either side of him and placed them either side of the villager, leaving Claudiminix dumbstruck. "These are the strongest people I've ever seen," he said to Turlough who wasn't there. He looked around and saw him assisting Obelix, by crushing a rock with his bare hands. Claudiminix fainted on the spot.