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	WAYLAND THE SMITH - LoveToKnow Article on WAYLAND THE SMITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The legend of Wayland probably had its home in the north, where he and his brother Egilli were the types of the skilled workman, but there are abundant local traditions of the wonderful smith in Westphalia and in southern England.
		Waylands son Wittich, and was cunningly exchanged by Hildebrand for a commoner blade before Wittichs fight with Dietrich.
		The earliest extant record of the Wayland legend is the representation in carved ivory on a casket of Northumbrian workmanship of a date not later than the beginning of the 8th century.
	69.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WAYLAND_THE_SMITH.htm (744 words)

	Weyland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is particularly associated with Wayland's Smithy, a burial mound in Oxfordshire.
		The character "Weyland Smith" is prominent in the "Animal Farm" story arc of the Fables comic book.
		This version of Weyland Smith is a genius with tools and machinery, and during his time in captivity, he is forced to alter "mundy" weaponry to be used by non-human Fables.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayland_Smith (468 words)

	Wayland's Smithy
		Wayland's Smithy is a neolithic long barrow which lies in a grove of ancient beech trees on the Berkshire Downs, a short distance from the iron age hill fort called Uffington Castle and the Uffington White Horse.
		In Anglo-Saxon mythology, Wayland was a smith of legendary and magical skill, and he was sometimes also portrayed as the lord of the elves.
		Wayland is also mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon poem Waldere (in which Mimming was a sword of Weland's making), Deor Klagan (which tells of Wayland's sufferings at the hands of King Nidudr) and Beowulf (in which Beowulf's mailed corselet was spoken of as the "work of Wayland").
	www3.sympatico.ca /ci.kerr/smithy.html (691 words)

	WBU--News release
		Both Mayfield and Smith are quick to point out that the honor does not come along with a retirement announcement, but was planned this year, "so we could do this while she's still very much a part of the Wayland family," Mayfield said.
		Smith first came to Wayland in 1959 as a student, attending courses for fun while her husband Don studied to become a preacher.
		Smith is proud of helping to institute the university's language lab, which began with her own tape recorder hooked to eight headphone sets for students.
	www.wbu.edu /a/a05c/smithschol.htm (595 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Wayland the Smith and St Clement \| Weyland Weland Watlende Volundarkvida ...
		North-Germanic/Norse Völundr, the smith of the gods, who was the son of the giant sailor Wate and of a mermaid.
		The earliest known record of the Wayland legend is the representation in carved ivory on a casket made by Northumbrian craftsmen not later than the beginning of the 8th century.
		The apprentice so exasperated his master that Wayland once lifted the boy and hurled him as far away as he could and where Flibbertigibbet, or Snivelling as he is also known, landed he remained, petrified.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /wayland_smith.html (1124 words)

	Wayland the Smith
		Wayland the Smith is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		In all versions he is a smith, a legendary artisan who was captured and imprisoned by King Nidud (an evil age) and forced to forge treasures of gold and silver for the king.
		The symbology suggests that the smith represents a race of humanity which had fallen prey to influences of a totally material age when human genius and craftsmanship were prostituted to unworthy ends.
	www.experiencefestival.com /wayland_the_smith (393 words)

	German Heroes
		Wayland appeared as Volund in the Völundarkvida ("Lay of Völundr") of the Poetic Edda, and in the Beowulf (Old English saga) as Weland, who made the corslet for the hero Beowulf.
		In the Norse myth, Völund (or Wayland) was the brother of Egil and Slagfid (Slagfinn).
		Wayland's escape from Nídud, bears a striking resemblance to that of the Cretan architect and inventor, Daedalus, who escaped from King Minos, in wings made out of feathers and wax.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/german.html (11682 words)

	Adrian The Ageing Hippy's Who Was Wayland The Smith?
		Wayland (also spelled Weland, Walant, Welant or Volund) was known from at least as early as the 6th century in Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon legend, as a smith of outstanding skill - some legends say the smith of the Gods.
		On the left, the lamed Wayland working at his anvil holds the severed head of one of King Nithoth's sons in his tongs, and another figure is connected either with the swan-maidens or with Wayland's flight.
		Wayland is mentioned as the maker of an unsurpassable sword.
	www.adrian.smith.clara.net /who_was_wayland.html (767 words)

	Excalibur Heritage - Online Shopping for arts, crafts, gifts, clothing and jewellery.
		Wayland's Smithy is a chambered long-barrow in Oxfordshire dating from approximately 3500 BC.
		Volund or Wayland or Weland the Smith, according to Norse mythology was the husband of Alvit, a Valkyrie.
		wayland the smith, weland, wayland, smithy, Volund, wayland the smith is an important character in northern european mythology.
	www.excaliburheritage.com /stories/wayland.htm (859 words)

	Wayland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wayland is the name of a mythical character and of some places in the United States of America:
		Wayland is a planet in the Star Wars fictional universe.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayland (91 words)

	Wayland the Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wayland (or Weyland/Volundr/Volund/Vulcan) the Smith was the son of the sea giant Wate and the sea nymph Wac-hilt.
		Eventually Wayland took his revenge by luring the king's two sons to his smithy, where he killed them and turned their skulls into drinking goblets, which he gave to the king.
		Wayland (far right) working in his smithy while his brother Egil is fighting.
	www.waylands.net /public/smithy/legends.htm (508 words)

	Berkshire History: The Legend of Wayland the Smithy (Ashbury), Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wayland entered his house and stoked up the fire ready to cook some of the bear he had just killed in the forest.
		Wayland was thrown into a deep cave on the island of Saevar-Staud which was to become his workshop, while Egil was employed elsewhere in the Royal household.
		The divine smith was determined, however, that his immortal life was not to be wasted toiling for the pleasure of a mere human.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /legends/smithy01.html (2209 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wayland was a flsmith, and the son of the high chieftess of the Sami.
		Wayland the Thrall said, "I have mead, made from the honey of the bees that nest inside this crack in the walls.
		Wayland the Smith and his brothers took the treasures he had made in the walled garden on the hill and they flew off.
	www.realtime.net /~pixel/wayland.htm (1740 words)

	Chapter SMITH <i>to</i> Snitchey and Craggs of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Smith (Henry), alias “Henry Gow,” alias “Gow Chrom,” alias “Hal of the Wynd,” the armourer, and lover of Catharine Glover, whom at the end he marries.—Sir W. Scott: Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).
		Smith (Mr.), a faithful confidential clerk in the bank of Dornton and Sulky.
		Smith (Wayland), an invisible farrier, who haunted the “Vale of the White Horse,”; in Berkshire, where three flat stones supporting a fourth commemorate the place of his stithy.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1129/15002/1.html (508 words)

	Aeclectic Tarot Forum - Fairy Ring Oracle - Wayland Smith - 16th card
		I guess that Wayland Smith is the man who forges the magic swords that the Lady of the Lake distributes to chosen human kings.
		This sword Wayland Smith is forging would have to be magical -- it's gold, and gold is one of the softest metals in the world.
		As he sleeps, Wayland the Smith is betrayed, kidnapped, and forced into slavery by King Nidud of the Njars.
	www.tarotforum.net /archive/index.php/t-40350.html (656 words)

	Wayland language scholarship named for beloved professor
		Now in her 34th year of teaching at Wayland, Smith has been associated with foreign language studies at the West Texas Baptist school longer than any other professor.
		She arrived at Wayland in 1959 as a student, attending courses for fun while her husband, Don, studied to become a preacher.
		After the first semester proved academically successful--she earned three A's and a B despite helping care for a husband and a baby daughter--Smith realized she might actually be able to complete a degree and become a teacher, fulfilling a dream held since childhood.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2002/12_30/pages/wayland.html (451 words)

	D'Alsace en Lorraine
		Wayland also spelled Weland or Völundr, is according to the Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon legend, a smith of outstanding skill.
		Wayland the flsmith was the most skillful at handwork one has ever heard of in the ancient accounts.
		Wayland was captured by Nídudr (Nithad, or Niduth), lamed to prevent his escape, and forced to work in the king's smithy.
	www.robert-weinland.org /rech.php?lang=en (480 words)

	Wayland, or Weland, the Smith -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon legend, Wayland is a smith of outstanding skill.
		Scottish magazine that was published from 1802 to 1929, and which contributed to the development of the modern periodical and to modern standards of literary criticism.
		Wayland Baptist is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9340021?tocId=9340021 (733 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Weland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Weland: Smith of the Gods was published in 1973 and is now out of print, but there are a number of used copies available on amazon.com, most of them at reasonable prices.
		She quotes from "Óðinn's Rune Song." In this retelling of Wayland's myth, he is against his own wishes something of an Óðinnic hero with a varying and multi-leveled relationship with Óðinn.
		In the original Eddaic version, Wayland refers to Bothvild as his wife and exacts a public oath to protect her and his future son before flying away from Nidud's court without her.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0370012682 (993 words)

	Will Smith
		Smith Act - Smith Act, 1940, passed by the U.S. Congress as the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
		Wayland Smith - Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful flsmith and great armor maker, whose forge was...
		William Smith - Smith, William, 1769–1839, English geologist.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0761018.html (135 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wayland Smith (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
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		Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful flsmith and great armor maker, whose forge was near the White Horse (Oxfordshire).
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Wayland Smith
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WaylandS.html (173 words)

	EARTH MYSTERIES: Wayland's Smithy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wayland's Smithy is a neolithic long barrow located just off the the Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs about a half mile from Uffington Castle (an Iron Age hill fort) and the Uffington White Horse.
		It was built between 3,700 and 3, 400 B.C.E. The barrow is first mentioned by name in a charter in 955 C.E. It was sketched by John Aubry around 1670.
		Wayland's Smithy is one of many prehistoric sites associated with Wayland, the Norse god of flsmithing.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMWayland.html (404 words)

	NewHampshire.com: News: Scholar of the Month credits her family and teachers
		In her spare time, Smith also helps at the Salvation Army soup kitchen, is a student mentor, serves on the Teen Suicide Prevention Committee and helped host the New Hampshire Youth Earth Summit.
		Smith was her school's representative to the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership last year and a Lakes Region participant for Rotary Youth Leadership.
		Francis Wayland Parker, the Civil War era educator known for progressive ideas, would be a profound administrator in the modern educational institution, Smith believes.
	www.newhampshire.com /articles/showularticle.cfm?p=1&id=51930 (417 words)

	Kenilworth - Chapter XIII
		On such occasions the agency of Wayland Smith (by which name we shall continue to distinguish the artist, though his real name was Lancelot Wayland) was extremely serviceable.
		Wayland Smith willingly acquiesced in the precaution, of which he probably conjectured the motive, but only stipulated that his master should enter the shops of such chemists or apothecaries as he should point out, in walking through Fleet Street, and permit him to make some necessary purchases.
		This he offered to Wayland, his manner conveying the deepest devotion towards him, though an avaricious and jealous expression, which seemed to grudge every grain of what his customer was about to possess himself, disputed ground in his countenance with the obsequious deference which he desired it should exhibit.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/Kenilworth/chap13.html (2235 words)

	Obituaries 2.8.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elwin (Smitty) Smith, 77, of 5 Bush Ave., Wayland, died Feb. 1, 2001, at the Vincent House in Wayland.
		He was born Sept. 1, 1923, in Websters Crossing, the son of Ario and Sarah King Smith, residing in Perkinsville his early life prior to moving to Wayland in 1949.
		He was a member of the Gunlocke Retirees, a life member of the Wayland Fire Department, Meals on Wheels and a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II serving in the South Pacific and a member of the Wayland American Legion.
	www.clarioncall.com /obits/obits020801.html (871 words)

	WMU News - Wayland Patrick Smith obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wayland Patrick Smith, professor emeritus in management, died Jan. 16 in Arizona.
		Smith retired in 1989 after serving for 14-1/2 years as a faculty member in both management and mechanical engineering.
		He was a 1947 graduate of the University of Wisconsin and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the Case Institute of Technology.
	www.wmich.edu /wmu/news/2000/0002/9900-x382.html (126 words)

	Obituary for Robert L. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robert L. Smith of Wayland and Springwater, age 74, formerly of 8998 Becker Rd., died Monday, March 9, 1998 at the Bath VA Hospital after a long illness.
		Bob was born July 20, 1923 in Canisteo, a son of Lewis and Irene (Chase) Smith.
		He is survived by three stepdaughters, Sally Smith and Linda Burton, both of Wayland, and Rosy Sylvester of Tucson, AZ; one brother, Paul Smith of Wayland; two sisters-in-law, Ruth Smith and Pearl Smith, both of Wayland; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
	dansville.lib.ny.us /obituary/19803090.html (180 words)

	Kenilworth - Chapter XI.
		Wayland Smith eagerly embraced the proposal, and protested his devotion to his new master.
		A whistle from the owner brought to his side a nag that fed quietly on the common, and was accustomed to the signal.
		The pride of art, which is certainly not inferior in its influence to any other pride whatever, here so far operated on Wayland Smith, that, notwithstanding the obvious danger of his being recognized, he could not help winking to Tressilian, and smiling mysteriously, as if triumphing in the undoubted evidence of his veterinary skill.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/Kenilworth/chap11.html (3384 words)

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		L to R: Kelli Smith, Chris Christman, Rob Christensen, Doug McLaughlin and Andrea Wayland.
		Andrea Wayland, Leslie Squires, Chris Christman & Kelli Smith, of course, all Class of `95.
		Chris Christman, Andrea Wayland and Kelley Gorman, all class of `95, drinkin' margaritas at the Rio in Ft. Collins before Christmas.
	inter-state.tripod.com /pics3.html (284 words)

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