Weyland

Weyland (also spelled Wayland, Weland and Watlende which is a Manor house in Kent) is the mythical smith-god of the Saxon immigrants into Britain. He is synonymous with the North-Germanic/Norse Volund/Volundr of the Volundarkvida/volundakvitha, a chapter in the Elder Edda.

He is particulary associated with Waylands's smithy, a burial mound in Oxfordshire. This was named by the Saxons but this mound significantly predates 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.

See also Nidud, and the history of Nericia.