Cultural References
Julian Cope included a song called ""Wayland's Smithy Has Wings"" on his 1992 album The Skellington Chronicles.
Author Patricia Kennealy-Morrison has a protagonist named Turk Wayland in her Rennie Stride mystery series, and sets a scene at the end of the fourth book, "A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall", at Wayland's Smithy.
Rudyard Kipling, in his interlinked collection of stories Puck of Pook's Hill, set many of the stories near the Smithy, and told of the arrival of the smith god in the first.
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