The Journal of Antiquities includes an article on 'Weyland the Smith' by David McGrory (1995), which gives some interesting background information/legend. See the JoA's entry for Weyland The Smith – An Article by David McGrory, which delves into the naming of the barrow from the Teutonic demi-god, Weyland the Smith, also called Volund. An extract from the article reads: "... the first Saxons to see the mound thought it had been constructed by a god or giant … Because the ‘smithy’ lay on the boundary of two Saxon estates it is the only ancient monument to be named on an Anglo-Saxon charter; dating to before the Norman Conquest, the conveyance charter refers to the barrow as ‘Welandes Smiththan'".
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