Category: Legends and Lore
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Wayland’s Smithy through the Sutton Hoo lens
Wayland’s Smithy Through the Sutton Hoo LensThere are places in Britain that seem to exist slightly outside of ordinary time. Places where successive cultures have arrived, looked upon the same earthworks, hills, stones or carvings, and each declared with complete confidence that they understood what they were seeing. Then, after a few centuries, they vanished…
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The Wayland Cycle
Three Rings from the 7th-Century Legend Some designs arrive quickly. Others feel as though they have been waiting in the landscape for a very long time. The first chapter of the Wayland Cycle belongs firmly to the latter kind. This set of three titanium rings grew from a desire to make something more than “runic…
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The Wayland’s Smithy Ring
The First Artifact of the Wayland Cycle Some stories survive not because they are written in books, but because they become part of the landscape. High on the Berkshire Downs stands an ancient mound known today as Wayland’s Smithy. Built over 5,000 years ago as a Neolithic burial chamber, the monument long predates the Anglo-Saxons…