Volund is the titular figure in the Eddic Lay, Volundarksvidha. An online translation can be found at the Norse Classics Website
Volund (as Weland) is also mentioned in the Old English poem Deor (translated by Richard Hamer).
Deor can be found in its original Old English here.
The Volund discussion we had before the blot was one of the best we've had as a group. Here are some of the things we spoke about:
What the heck was Volund? God, demi-god, alf or hero? The Anglo-Saxon's worshipped him as a deity, since there is archeological evidence of a temple dedicated to him. The Norse sources treat him as a hero, though refer to him as "prince of alfs".
Does Volund deserve to be honored? Some of Volund's actions in the second half of his Lay seem less than honorable. He kills two children, and takes advantage of a drunken woman, impregnating her. To a modern audience, these actions seem unforgivable, but to the reader at the time, they might not have seemed so ignoble. When considering the murders of King Nidhudh's children, one must remember that Volund, by this point in the lay, has been kidnapped, mutilated, enslaved and isolated from human contact. When his enslaver's children visit him, he tells them he will give them treasures if they return. The greedy children indeed do return, and are subsequently slain. This can, one one level, be viewed as a lesson against avarice. On another level, Volund is avenging his own capture by doing damage to Nidhudh and his family. And vengeance, as glancing at any Saga will tell you, was not looked down upon in Norse culture, nor was murder, per se. For some reason, when Volund laid down with Beodhild, after plying her with ale, some modern readers have called it a "rape". There was no such implication in the original text, and in older versions of the story, there is more evidence that Volund had true feelings for Beodhild (he takes her with him when he escapes from the island). Even in Volundarkvidha, the smith extracts a very strong promise from the king that no hard would come to Beodhild and his child before flying away. The ale which Volund gives Beodhild is significant, as well, and could have been a magical drink (the words for ale and magic being cognate in Old Norse). One of the valkyries married to Volund's brother Egil in the first half of the lay is called "Olrun" or "ale-rune". Volund could have, in fact, learned the kind of magic he used in the second half of the lay (ale-magic, flying, etc...) from his swan-maid wife. This neatly ties the two halves of the lay together, as does the symbol of the arm-ring, created for his first wife, stolen by Nidhudh, and given to his second love-interest, Beodhild.