  We report the detection of a new TeV gamma-ray source, VER J0521+211, based
on observations made with the VERITAS imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope
array. These observations were motivated by the discovery of a cluster of
>30GeV photons in the first year of Fermi-LAT observations. VER J0521+211 is
relatively bright at TeV energies, with a mean photon flux of 1.93 +/-
0.13_stat +/- 0.78_sys 10^-11 cm-2 s-1 above 0.2 TeV during the period of the
VERITAS observations. The source is strongly variable on a daily timescale
across all wavebands, from optical to TeV, with a peak flux corresponding to
~0.3 times the steady Crab Nebula flux at TeV energies. Follow-up observations
in the optical and X-ray bands classify the newly-discovered TeV source as a BL
Lac-type blazar with uncertain redshift, although recent measurements suggest
z=0.108. VER J0521+211 exhibits all the defining properties of blazars in
radio, optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths.
