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Wayland Smith |
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Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful blacksmith and great armor maker, whose forge was near the White Horse (Oxfordshire). He appears in the Old English Beowulf and Deor and in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth. The story of his Norse cognate, Völund, appears at length in the Elder Edda. To the German peoples he is known as Wieland. |
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| Somewhat alarmed, Kessler and associates secured the premises only later to discover exhibition director Weyland ensconced in the neighboring bar. Kevin Weyland of the Washington Air National Guard is a great case in point. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 1997); Kurt Weyland, Democracy Without Equity: The Failure of Reform in Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996). |
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