In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith is a master blacksmith originating in Germanic heroic legend, whose story is most clearly told in the Old Norse sources ''Völundarkviða'' (a poem in the ''Poetic Edda'') and ''Þiðreks saga''. In them, Wayland is a smith who is enslaved by a king. Wayland takes revenge by killing the king's sons and then escapes by crafting a winged cloak and flying away. A number of other visual and textual sources clearly allude to similar stories, most prominently the Old English poem ''Deor'' and the Franks Casket.

Wayland is also mentioned in passing in a wide range of texts, such as the Old English ''Waldere'' and ''Beowulf'', as the maker of weapons and armor such as the mail shirt worn by Beowulf. He is mentioned in the German poems about Theoderic the Great as the father of Witige. He is also attributed to have made various swords for Charlemagne and his paladins, namely Curtana, Durendal and Joyeuse.

*Poetic Edda
*Þiðreks saga
*Deor
*Waldere
*Beowulf
*Kenilworth (1575)

*Adventures into the Unknown #12 - Under the guise of normal human, the immortal Wayland Smith becomes the assistant of scientist Dan Warren who has constructed a powerful robot. Wayland however wishes to transfer his mind into the robot's body, but is defeated by the robot when he tries to take it over.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/weyland-smith/4005-7267/ ComicVine]

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