| rdfs:comment | - Wayland the Smith is a famous Shadowhunter credited as the first weapons maker. Before the Iron Sisters, the Waylands were famous as weapon makers. He is particularly famous for forging Excalibur, Joyeuse, and Durendal, the swords of the heroes Arthur, Lancelot, and Roland, respectively. Additionally, in Nephilim society, he is also famous for having made Cortana for the Carstairs family and the matched set Morgenstern swords, Heosphoros and Phaesphoros.
- Weyland had two brothers, Egil and Slagfiðr. In one version of the myth, the three brothers lived with three Valkyries: Ölrún, Hervör alvitr and Hlaðguðr svanhvít. After nine years, the Valkyries left their lovers. Egil and Slagfiðr followed, never to return. In another version, Weyland married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Weyland. In both versions, his love left him with a ring. In the former myth, he forged seven hundred duplicates of this ring.
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| abstract | - Weyland had two brothers, Egil and Slagfiðr. In one version of the myth, the three brothers lived with three Valkyries: Ölrún, Hervör alvitr and Hlaðguðr svanhvít. After nine years, the Valkyries left their lovers. Egil and Slagfiðr followed, never to return. In another version, Weyland married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Weyland. In both versions, his love left him with a ring. In the former myth, he forged seven hundred duplicates of this ring. At a later point in time, he was captured in his sleep by King Niðhad in Nerike who ordered him hamstrung and imprisoned on the island of Sævarstöð. There he was forced to forge items for the king. Weyland's wife's ring was given to the king's daughter, Bodvild. Nidud wore Weyland's sword. In revenge, Weyland killed the king's sons when they visited him in secret, fashioned goblets from their skulls, jewels from their eyes, and a brooch from their teeth. He sent the goblets to the king, the jewels to the queen and the brooch to the king's daughter. When Bodvild took her ring to him to be mended, he took the ring and raped her, fathering a son and escaping on wings he made. Weyland (Völund) made the magic sword Gram (also named Balmung and Nothung) and the magic ring that Thorsten retrieved.
- Wayland the Smith is a famous Shadowhunter credited as the first weapons maker. Before the Iron Sisters, the Waylands were famous as weapon makers. He is particularly famous for forging Excalibur, Joyeuse, and Durendal, the swords of the heroes Arthur, Lancelot, and Roland, respectively. Additionally, in Nephilim society, he is also famous for having made Cortana for the Carstairs family and the matched set Morgenstern swords, Heosphoros and Phaesphoros.
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