# Episode 30 - The Dark Tale of Wayland

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Podcast: [Norse Mythology: The Unofficial Guide](https://stenobird.com/podcast/norse-mythology-the-unofficial-guide-5485323)
Published: 2023-03-22T00:40:47+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waelhraefn/episodes/Episode-30---The-Dark-Tale-of-Wayland-e20so91
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Duration seconds: 2592

## Resource

For our first excursion into Norse hero material, we'll be discussing two versions of a story about a character known across Norse, English, and German sources as Wayland the Smith. Prepare yourself for valkyries, dwarves, kidnapping, maiming, murder, intrigue, revenge, flying machines, and two surprising cameos from Sigurd the Dragonslayer and maybe even William Tell? Sources: “The Context of Völundarkviða” by John McKinnel, 1993 “Velents þáttr smiðs” as published on heimskringla.no “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Edward Pettit, 2023 “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014 Contact: Write in: waelhraefn (at) gmail (dot) com Join the Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/Nvw5hmkRsW⁠ Music: Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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