road, called "Wade's Causeway" or "Wade's Wife's Causey" locally, was also said to have been built in this manner.) One day Wade's son grew impatient for his milk and hurled a stone that weighed a few tonnes across Eskdale to where his mother was milking her cow at Swarthow on Egton Low Moor. The stone hit Bell with such force that a part of it broke off and could be seen for many years until it was broken up to mend the highways. In local folklore, the Hole of Horcum in North Yorkshire was formed where Wade scooped up earth to throw at his wife. Legacy The Middle-earth character Eärendil sails the sky in a ship named Vingilot or Wingelot, which scholars note is close to the name of Wade's boat Guingelot. In one of his linguistic writings, Parma Eldalamberon 15, the creator of Middle-earth, J. R. R. Tolkien, explicitly noted "Wade = Earendel". Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter remarked that Eärendil "was in fact the beginning of Tolkien's own mythology". Footnotes Explanatory notes Citations References Further reading Branston, "The Lost Gods of England", 1957 Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" Ellis Davidson, H. R. "Gods and Myths of the Viking Age", 1996 Jordsvin, "Wayland Smith", Idunna, Fall 2004 Poetic Edda, Völundarkviða Germanic mythology English folklore English heroic legends Northumbrian folklore