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Now suspecting Weyland's part in his sons' disappearance, Nidud begged to know their fates, allowing Weyland to extract from the king a promise not to harm his bride presumably meaning Bodvild in this instance. Once he had that, Weyland regaled Nidud with a full account of his gruesome revenge. As he flew away, Nidud ordered Egil to shoot him down, still unaware of the archer's part in things. Egil appeared to comply, but actually hit a bladder filled with blood Weyland had hidden under his arm, fooling the king and allowing Weyland to return home without fear of retribution.
Stricken with sorrow, Nidud sent for his daughter, who tearfully admitted her pregnancy. Grief stricken, Nidud died soon after, and Otvin ascended the throne. More pragmatic than his father, Otvin made peace with Weyland, marrying him to Bodvild, who bore Weyland another son, Vederik, who would go on to become a great hero in his own right. Many of Weyland's creations would go on to serve future heroes well: Mimung made its way into the hands of Walter of Aquitaine, the Viking Thorsten got hold of the sword Gram and a magic ring, and Beowulf a mail shirt.
Eventually, seemingly wishing to hide from men, Weyland came to England, and set up a secret forge within a barrow in White Horse Hill on the Berkshire Downs, a place that became known as Wayland's [sic] Smithy. Allegedly having become a king of the elves, legends spread of an invisible smith who would shoe any horse left there overnight, so long as a coin was left in payment and the owner absented themselves.
He took on an apprentice, Flittergibbet, whom he would send to fetch nails for his shoeing, but he constantly annoyed Weyland with his silliness, until the exasperated smith threw him down into the valley, turning him to stone. One special horse that Weyland shod belonged to the Norse hero Sigurd, resulting in it becoming frozen in chalk as a giant hill figure near his smithy. However, every hundred years it awakes, jumps off the hill and runs back to the smithy for him to shoe again.
The Incredible Hulk UK I 60 - As the threat of Necrom loomed, Merlyn visited him there and asked him to reforge the broken pieces of the Ebony Blade, shattered when the Black Knight fought the Iron Ogre , telling the smith that as well as reworking, it needed binding with a great spell.
The Incredible Hulk UK I 61 - Weyland finished his work just in time, making the blade stronger than it had been before. As Necromon's forces gathered outside Camelot, Weyland delivered the repaired sword to Merlyn, to hold for the Black Knight until he returned from a vital mission. A small note regarding his UK comics appearances - the comic he appeared in was titled on the cover as "The Incredible Hulk," but the indicia called it "Hulk Weekly"; since the first name is the one people would be looking for if they were searching for it by checking covers, I've used that here, but some online sites list it by the latter; ymmv.
The legend of Weyland date at least as far back as the 8th century A. Weyland is also referenced in the epic poems Waldere a. Walter of Aquitaine, king of the Visigoths and Beowulf for forging each heroes' legendary weapons.
As the more mythologically inclined may notice, the pre-Marvel history is a mixture of the various sagas about Weyland. While the overall tale remains the same, some details vary from one account to the next. Some are more noticeable: Weyland works for Nidud and ends up imprisoned after returning from exile in attempt to kill him versus Weyland never sailed to Nidud's kingdom and was simply kidnapped for his gold and skills.
In one version, he kills Amilias after being kidnapped, but other versions don't mention Amilias at all. When stories in the comics appear to contradict themselves, it's handbook policy to see if we can make as much as possible fit, so I've taken that approach here, meaning that where the versions differ I've tried to keep as much from both as I could, and to go with the versions that made him come across as less of a jerk. He's among the heroes in Hulk Weekly, so I think we should go with the versions of the legends where he a doesn't rape Bodvild and b wasn't imprisoned because he tried to murder Nidud for sacking him.
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