Story: Wayland
Oct. 31st, 2006 12:20 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
Title: Wayland
Rating: General (possibly a chill factor)
Notes: Not entirely canonical (and a bit of an experiment in style), this is speculation linking elves, barrow-wights and an Old English legend.
Wayland's Smithy is a prehistoric long-barrow in the south of England, where a supernatural smith (once a Anglo-Saxon god) used to be said to shoe horses. Nearby is the White Horse of Uffington, a chalk-cut hillside figure,also prehistoric. I visited them both this summer, and the smithy is an atmospheric place.
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