At 7:35 the women singing in the field is a reuse of the same scene when Xena first returns to her home village.
Lyceus and Xena are captured and in giant bird cages; Lyceus is trying to cut the cage bars and Xena says,"Try cutting against the grain". Whether by chance or erudition, the writers got this right. Ancient Greek iron was true wrought iron, composed of layers of low carbon iron and silicate slag. This iron had been hammered out, folded, hammered out,folded... The end result had a grain like wood has and blacksmiths had to work with the grain just as carpenters do with wood.
Lyceus still wears his virilis token for good luck. In ancient Rome boys, from 9 days old to adulthood, wore a 'bulla' medalion to protect them from harm. At the coming of age ritual, the 'toga virilis', a young man gives up his red hemmed boyish toga and his bulla and puts on an adults's plain white toga.