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Wayland the Smith

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In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith (Wēland;; Wiolant; italic Wieland der Schmied; Galans (Galant) in French; from Wēla-nandaz, lit. "battle-brave") is a legendary master blacksmith, described by Jessie Weston as "the weird and malicious craftsman, Weyland". [1]

72 relations: Adoration of the Magi, Alfred the Great, Alruna, Ardre image stones, Þiðreks saga, Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar, Böðvildr, Bedale, Beowulf, Beowulf (hero), Berkshire Downs, Boethius, Brooch, Bulgakov, Chalice, Culture of Närke, Deor, Egil, brother of Volund, Epic poetry, Flibbertigibbet, Franks Casket, Germanic mythology, Gobannus, Gram (mythology), Groat (coin), Halton-with-Aughton, Hamstring, Hamstringing, Hervör alvitr, Hlaðguðr svanhvít, Horse, Horseshoe, Hrethel, Hygelac, Ilmarinen, Jessie Weston, Kāve, Kenilworth (novel), Leeds, Legends about Theoderic the Great, Magic ring, Magic sword, Mail (armour), Megalith, Närke, Niðhad, North Yorkshire, Old English, Poetic Edda, Puck of Pook's Hill, ..., R. K. Gordon, Ring (jewellery), Rudyard Kipling, Sami people, Seamus Heaney, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Sigurd, Slagfiðr, Swan maiden, Sword, Tumulus, Valkyrie, Völundarkviða, Velents þáttr smiðs, Viking Age, Wade (folklore), Waldere, Wayland's Smithy, West Yorkshire, Wieland der Schmied (libretto), Witege, Wyrd. Expand index (22 more) »

Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him.

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Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Alruna

Alruna (Old Norse Ölrún, Old High German Ailrun, Modern German Alruna, Alraune) is a Germanic female personal name, from Proto Germanic *aliruna (or possibly *agilruna), which is formed from runa "secret, rune" and a debated prefix that may be ali-, agil-, or alu-.

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Ardre image stones

The Ardre image stones are a collection of ten rune and image stones, dated to the 8th to 11th centuries, that were discovered at Ardre Church, in Ardre, Gotland, Sweden.

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Þiðreks saga

Þiðreks saga af Bern ('the saga of Þiðrekr of Bern', also Þiðrekssaga, Þiðriks saga, Niflunga saga or Vilkina saga, with Anglicisations including Thidreksaga) is an Old Norse chivalric saga centering the character it calls Þiðrekr af Bern, who originated as the historical king Theoderic the Great (454–526), but who attracted a great many unhistorical legends in the Middle Ages.

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Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar

Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar or The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son is a legendary saga which takes place in the 7th century.

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Böðvildr

Böðvildr, Beadohilde, Bodil or Badhild was the princess of an evil king Níðuðr/Niðhad/Niðung who appears in Germanic legends, such as Deor, Völundarkviða and Þiðrekssaga.

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Bedale

Bedale is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England.

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Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

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Beowulf (hero)

Beowulf (Old English: Bēoƿulf) is a legendary Geatish hero in the epic poem named after him, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the English language.

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Berkshire Downs

The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (also Boetius; 477–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century.

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Brooch

A brooch is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed.

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Bulgakov

Bulgakov (Булгаков) is a Russian surname.

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Chalice

A chalice (from Latin calix, mug, borrowed from Greek κύλιξ (kulix), cup) or goblet is a footed cup intended to hold a drink.

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Culture of Närke

Närke, is a province in Central Sweden, which historically formed part of Svealand.

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Deor

"Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found in the late-10th-century collection the Exeter Book.

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Egil, brother of Volund

Egil is a legendary hero of the Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Flibbertigibbet

Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman.

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Franks Casket

The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century, now in the British Museum.

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Germanic mythology

Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples.

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Gobannus

Gobannus (or Gobannos, the Gaulish form, sometimes Cobannus) was a Gallo-Roman god, whose name, denoting "the smith", is normally taken to identify him as patron of smiths.

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Gram (mythology)

In Norse mythology, Gram (Old Norse Gramr, meaning Wrath) is the sword that Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir.

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Groat (coin)

The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence, and also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling.

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Halton-with-Aughton

Halton-with-Aughton is a civil parish and electoral ward located east of Lancaster, England, on the north bank of the River Lune.

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Hamstring

In human anatomy, a hamstring is one of the three posterior thigh muscles in between the hip and the knee (from medial to lateral: semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris).

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Hamstringing

Hamstringing is a method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing the hamstring tendons in the thigh of the individual.

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Hervör alvitr

Not to be confused with Hervor In Norse mythology, Hervör alvitr (Old Norse, alvitr possibly meaning "all-wise" or "strange creature"Orchard (1997:83).) is a valkyrie.

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Hlaðguðr svanhvít

In Norse mythology, Hlaðguðr svanhvít (Old Norse "Hlaðguðr swan-white"Simek (2007:151).) is a valkyrie.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Horseshoe

A horseshoe is a fabricated product, normally made of metal, although sometimes made partially or wholly of modern synthetic materials, designed to protect a horse's hoof from wear.

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Hrethel

Hrethel (Hrēðel; italic) was the king of the Geats, in Beowulf.

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Hygelac

Hygelac (Hygelāc; Hugleikr; italic; Ch(l)ochilaicus; died 521) was a king of the Geats according to the poem Beowulf.

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Ilmarinen

Ilmarinen, the Eternal Hammerer, blacksmith and inventor in the Kalevala, is a god and an archetypal artificer from Finnish mythology.

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Jessie Weston

Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850–1928) was an independent scholar, medievalist and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts.

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Kāve

Kaveh the Blacksmith (کاوه آهنگر – Kāve ye Āhangar; Kaway Asngar), also known as Kawa or the Blacksmith of Isfahan, is a mythical figure in the Iranian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahāk (Aži Dahāk).

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Kenilworth (novel)

Kenilworth.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Legends about Theoderic the Great

In legends about Theoderic the Great that spread after his death, the Gothic king Theoderic became known as Dietrich von Bern, a king ruling from Verona (Bern) who was forced into exile with the Huns.

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Magic ring

A magic ring is a ring, usually a finger ring, that has magical properties.

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Magic sword

A magic sword is any mythological or fictional sword imbued with magical power to increase its strength or grant it other supernatural qualities.

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Mail (armour)

Mail or maille (also chain mail(le) or chainmail(le)) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Närke

Närke is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Svealand in south central Sweden.

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Niðhad

King Niðhad, Níðuðr or Niðung was a cruel king in Germanic legend.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Poetic Edda

Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse anonymous poems, which is different from the Edda written by Snorri Sturluson.

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Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.

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R. K. Gordon

Robert Kay Gordon (1887–1973) was an English scholar of medieval and early modern English literature and administrator at the University of Alberta in Canada.

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Ring (jewellery)

A ring is a round band, usually of metal, worn as an ornamental piece of jewellery around the finger, or sometimes the toe; it is the most common current meaning of the word "ring".

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Sami people

The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Sherburn-in-Elmet

Sherburn in Elmet (pronounced) is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, situated near to Selby.

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Sigurd

Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic mythology, who killed a dragon and was later murdered.

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Slagfiðr

In Norse mythology, Slagfiðr (Old Norse "beating-Finn")Orchard (1997:151).

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Swan maiden

The swan maiden is a mythical creature who shapeshifts from human form to swan form.

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Sword

A sword is a bladed weapon intended for slashing or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Valkyrie

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live.

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Völundarkviða

Völundarkviða or more precisely Vǫlundarkviða (Völundr's poem, the name can be anglicized as Völundarkvitha, Völundarkvidha, Völundarkvida, Volundarkvitha, Volundarkvidha or Volundarkvida) is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda.

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Velents þáttr smiðs

Velents þáttr smiðs is the name given to the part of the Þiðrekssaga af Bern that deals with Wayland Smith (Velent, Wieland, Völundr).

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Wade (folklore)

Wade (Old English Wada), is the English name for a common Germanic mythological character who, depending on location, is also known as Vadi (Norse) and Wate (Middle High German).

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Waldere

"Waldere" or "Waldhere" is the conventional title given to two Old English fragments from a lost epic poem, discovered in 1860 by E. C. Werlauff, Librarian, in the Danish Royal Library at Copenhagen, where it is still preserved.

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Wayland's Smithy

Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle, at Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Wieland der Schmied (libretto)

Wieland der Schmied (Wieland the Smith) is a draft by Richard Wagner for an opera libretto based on the Germanic legend of Wayland Smith.

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Witege

Witege, Witige or Wittich (Wudga, Widia; Gotho-Vidigoia; italic) or Vidrik "Vidga" Verlandsson (+ Viðga or Videke + Verlandsson, Vallandsson, or Villandsson) is a character in several early Germanic legends, poems about Dietrich von Bern, and later Scandinavian ballads.

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Wyrd

Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny.

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Velent, Voelund, Voelundr, Vohlund, Volund, Volundr, Völund, Völundr, Vølund, Watlende, Wayland Smith, Wayland the smith, Welanduz, Weyland (smith), Weyland Smith, Wēlanduz.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith

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