1) American gothic novel 2) German boy name 3) Mythical being 4) Wayland 5) Wayland the smith 1) Wayland 
Wieland is a Germanic name, from wela `battle` and, nand `brave`. The English form is Wayland. as a first name: as a surname name: the novel of this name by Charles Brockden Brown: ...
(from the article `Brown, Charles Brockden`) His first novel, Wieland (1798), a minor masterpiece in American fiction, shows the ease with which mental balance is lost when the test of common ...