Swan maidens

Germanic mythological blacksmith

archetype in myth

legendary medieval figure

thumb|right|180px|From Ardre image stone VIII. Vǫlundr's smithy in the centre, Níðuðr's daughter to the left, and Níðuðr's dead sons hidden to the right of the smithy. Between the girl and the smithy, Vǫlundr can be seen flying away, apparently in bird form. thumb|Völundr and his two brothers see the swan-maidens bathing. Illustration by [[Jenny Nyström, 1893.]] thumb|"The three smith boys spy and later marry three valkyrie maidens" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine. Vǫlundarkviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Völund'; modern Icelandic spelling: Völundarkviða) is one of the mythological poems of the

Chinese folk tale

thumb|right|A depiction of a Tennin. thumb|A man with an irezumi tattoo of a Tennyo.

Noh play

Russian fairy tale

South Slav fable

poem

legendary archer of Germanic mythology

1961 novel by Poul Anderson