Graelent
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Graelent is an Old French Breton lai, named after its protagonist. It is one of the so-called anonymous lais.
Graelent and the Fairy-Woman, Otway McCannell illustration for Lewis Spence's Legends & Romances of Brittany (1917)
Völundarkviða
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Vǫlundarkviða is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda. The title is anglicized in various ways, including Völundarkvitha, Völundarkvidha, Völundarkvida, Volundarkvitha, Volundarkvidha and
Graelent
…this was borrowed specifically from the story of Wayland the Smith, which survive in the Middle High German Friedrich von Schwaben and the Eddic poem Völundarkviða. Schofield also discerned borrowings from the Irish narrative Noinden Ulad ("Debility of the Ulstermen"). Graelent was translated into Old Norse as…
Völundr and his two brothers see the swan-maidens bathing. Illustration by Jenny Nyström, 1893.
"The three smith boys spy and later marry three valkyrie maidens" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine.