EXPLORE SIX LOST LEGENDS OF ANCIENT BRITAIN
Jan 13, 2022
2 minutes
1 Wayland’s Smithy, Oxfordshire
his dark-mouthed prehistoric barrow in the Berkshire Downs has borne the name of a legendary Germanic goldsmith since at least the 10th century; it appears in a charter as ‘Welandes Smiððan’. According to Old Norse and Old English sources, an evil king cut the goldsmith’s hamstrings and imprisoned him on an island, making
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