Wayland the Smith

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Noun1.Wayland the Smith - (European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves; identified with Norse Volund
Wayland, 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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There are one or two exceptions, of course, including Tony Mitton whose Wayland the Smith won last year's CLPE award, and who should have made it to Daniel Hahn's The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
Notes from the President: inspiration
Those who have had not had to lie down with a cold compress can end their embrace of the Anglo-Saxon's influence on popular culture with Maria Sachiko Cecire's study of representations of the legend of Wayland the Smith. All in all, a stimulating, and very attractively produced volume.
David Clark and Nicholas Perkins (eds), Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Wayland the smith lives in the dark woods with his warrior brothers and their Swan-Brides.
Mitton, Tony and Lawrence, John: Wayland: The Tale of the Smith from the Far North
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