Weland

He was called Weland, and he was a smith to some Gods.

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

He was called Weland, and he was a smith to some Gods.

Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

Chef Weland carries his picks down to a basement kitchen and starts feeding them into a blender.

Cool Gazpacho For A Hot Summer 2010

NEARY: Weland pours the soup into a glass bowl over several small, colorful tomatoes and garden herbs.

Cool Gazpacho For A Hot Summer 2010

Weland for his skill suffered exile, the strong-willed hero had hardships to bear, had as his companions pain and sorrow, winter-cold exile, and endless griefs, from the time that Nithhad tied him in fetters, breaking the hamstrings of a better man.

Friday Poetry Blogging: Deor Heo 2006

Weland for his skill suffered exile, the strong-willed hero had hardships to bear, had as his companions pain and sorrow, winter-cold exile, and endless griefs, from the time that Nithhad tied him in fetters, breaking the hamstrings of a better man.

Archive 2006-05-01 Heo 2006

Weland (26 [455]), the Völund of the Edda, the famous smith of Teutonic legend, was the maker of Beowulf's coat of mail.

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

-- The lay of Völund, the wonderful smith, the Weland of the Old English poems and the only Germanic hero who survived for any considerable time in English popular tradition, stands alone in its cycle, and is the first heroic poem in the MS.

The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday

Sigemund the Waelsing and Fitela, Aetla, Eormanric the Goth and Gifica of Burgundy, Ongendtheow and Theodric, Heorrenda and the Heodenings, and Weland the Smith: all these heroes of Germanic legend were known to the writers of our earliest English literature.

The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday

Its heroes are at once pagan and Christian; they believe in Christ and in Weland; they fight against the monsters of Scandinavian mythology, and see in them the descendants of Cain; historical facts, such as a battle of the sixth century, mentioned by Gregory of Tours, where the victory remained to the Frankish ancestor, [58] are mixed up with tales of fantastic duels below the waves.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand