Weland

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬 and the 🇨🇬 phrase (Waltharius), which corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon phrase Wēlandes weorc in the poem .

Proper noun

 * 1)  Wayland, a smith of Germanic legend
 * 2) * unknown date, unknown author, "Waldere," lines 2-5
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Hūru Wēlandes weorc ne ġeswīcþ manna ǣnigum þāra þe Mimming cann heardne ġehealdan: oft æt hilde ġedrēas swātfāh and sweordwund seċġ æfter seċġum.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Hwǣr sind nū þæs wīsan Wēlandes bān þæs goldsmiðes þe wæs ġeō mǣrest? Hwā wāt nū on hwelcum hlǣwa hrusan hīe þeċċen?

Usage notes
Some evidence exists that the Anglo-Saxons believed Weland to be an elf, though this is not mentioned in the few Old English references to him that survive:


 * The Middle English poem Layamon's Brut says King Arthur's mail shirt was forged by an elvish smith named Wygar, father of Widia. Old English and Norse sources name Widia as Weland's son, so Wygar was presumably an alternative name or alteration of Weland.


 * The Old Norse poem Vǫlundarkviða, which is often thought to be based on a lost Old English original, calls Weland the epithets alfa vísi ("leader of the elves") and alfa ljóði ("citizen of the elves"). Especially the latter phrase could be from Old English, since ljóði is not attested elsewhere in Old Norse, and its only exact cognate is the poetic Old English word lēoda.