Wayland the Smith

Germanic mythological blacksmith
Person norse_mythical_character Q33150
Wayland the Smith
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Wayland the Smith

Summary

Wayland the Smith is a Norse mythical character[1]. He ranks in the top 6% of norse_mythical_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (325 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • A child of Wayland the Smith was Witege[3].
  • Wayland the Smith's image is recorded as Franks Casket vorne links.jpg[4].
  • Wayland the Smith is recorded as male[5].
  • Wayland the Smith's instance of is recorded as Norse mythical character[6].
  • Wayland the Smith's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 27864574[7].
  • Wayland the Smith's GND ID is recorded as 118632469[8].
  • Wayland the Smith's part of is recorded as Norse mythology[9].
  • Wayland the Smith's Commons category is recorded as Wieland[10].
  • Wayland the Smith's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01m4fy[11].
  • Wayland the Smith's Iconclass notation is recorded as 82A(WAYLAND)[12].
  • Wayland the Smith's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Wayland the Smith's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Wayland the Smith's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • Wayland the Smith's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • Wayland the Smith's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • Wayland the Smith's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Wayland-the-Smith[18].
  • Wayland the Smith's CERL Thesaurus ID is recorded as cnp00572385[19].
  • Wayland the Smith's sibling is recorded as Agilaz[20].
  • Wayland the Smith's sibling is recorded as Slagfiðr[21].
  • Wayland the Smith's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Volund[22].
  • Wayland the Smith's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i87038[23].
  • Wayland the Smith's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09608393-n[24].
  • Wayland the Smith's IxTheo authority ID is recorded as 694836192[25].
  • Wayland the Smith's WorldCat Entities ID is recorded as E39PCjqXqG7QPjhVx3dQH6Yhpd[26].
  • Wayland the Smith's DDB person is recorded as 118632469[27].

Body

Personal Life

A child of Wayland the Smith was Witege[3].

Why It Matters

Wayland the Smith ranks in the top 6% of norse_mythical_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (325 views/month).[2] He has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] He is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . Cassell's Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend (2002 edition). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Q21418934. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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