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Weyland/Wayland/Weland is the mythical smith-god of the Saxon immigrants into Britain. He is synonymous with the North-Germanic/Norse Volund[?].

He is particulary associated with Waylands's smithy[?], a burial mound[?] in Oxfordshire. This was named by the Saxons but significantly pradates them. It is from this association that the superstition came about that a horse left there overnight with a silver coin would be shod by morning.

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