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单词 Wayland the Smith
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Wayland the Smith

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Wayland the Smith

An illustration of Völundr.
Völund's smithy in the centre, Niðhad's daughter to the left, and Nidud's dead sons hidden to the right of the smithy. Between the girl and the smithy, Völund can be seen in an eagle fetch flying away. From the Ardre image stone VIII.
The hamstrung smith Weyland from the front of the Franks Casket (see text).
Böðvildr in Weyland's Smithy John Gehring (1883)

In Norse mythology, Wayland the Smith (Old English:Wēland; Old Norse:Völundr, Velentr; Old High German:Wiolant; Proto-Germanic:*Wēlandaz, from *Wēla-nandaz, lit. "battle-brave") is a legendary master blacksmith. In Old Norse sources, Völundr appears in Völundarkviða, a poem in the Poetic Edda, and in Þiðrekssaga, and his legend is also depicted on the Ardre image stone VIII. In Old English sources, he appears in Deor, Waldere and in Beowulf and the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket. He is mentioned in the German poems about Dietrich von Bern as the Father of Witige.

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