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Wayland, Wayland Smith [ˈweɪlənd]

(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) a smith, artificer, and king of the elves in European folklore Scandinavian name Völund German name Wieland

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Wayland - (European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves; identified with Norse Volund

Wayland the Smith, Wieland

mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

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mythology Norse mythology Volund Völund Wayland the Smith Wieland			A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers bound westward through Lincoln and Wayland to nobody knows where; they sitting at their ease in gigs, with elbows on knees, and reins loosely hanging in festoons; I the home-staying, laborious native of the soil. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context This is Wayland Smith's cave, a place of classic fame now; but as Sir Walter has touched it, I may as well let it alone, and refer you to "Kenilworth" for the legend. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context			Way of the rounds way out Way pane Way passenger way point Way shaft way station Way train Way warden way-cool Way-going Way-going crop Way-goose way-out Way-wise waybill Waybread Waybung Wayed Wayfare wayfarer wayfaring wayfaring tree Waygate Wayk Wayland Wayland the Smith waylay Waylayer wayleave wayleggo Wayless Wayleway Waymaker waymark waymarked Wayment Wayne Wayne Gretzky waypoint ways ways and means Ways and Means Committee Ways of God wayside wayward waywardness Waywiser Waywode Waywodeship wayworn			WAYES Wayewoda WAYF Wayfare wayfarer wayfarer Wayfarers Wayfarers State Park wayfaring wayfaring wayfaring tree wayfaring tree wayfaring tree wayfaring trees wayfaring trees Wayfaring-tree WayFinder Experience Wayfinding Agents for Locating Distributed Objects WAYG Waygate WAYGD Wayi Wayikra Wayikra Wayikra Rabbah WAYJO Wayk WAYLA waylaid waylaid Wayland Wayland Baptist University Wayland Board of Health Wayland Smith Wayland Smith Wayland Student Press Network Wayland the Smith Wayland the Smith Wayland Union Education Foundation Wayland, Francis waylay waylay waylayer waylayer waylayers waylayers waylaying waylaying waylays waylays Wayleave Wayleave Wayleave Wayleave wayleggo Wayless Wayleway Waylon Smithers WAYLT WAYLTL WAYMA

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