Unsolved:Giant's Dance
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The Giant's Dance or Giants' Dance is a stone circle in an Arthurian legend first documented c. 1136 in Historia Regum Britanniae.[1]
In the Merlin legend
Geoffrey of Monmouth described it as a megalithic stone circle, whose stones were used to build the neolithic Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England .
According to Geoffrey, the wizard Merlin disassembled a circle at Mount Killaraus in Ireland and had men drag the stones to Wiltshire, and had giants assemble Stonehenge.[2][1]
Modern use of name
In modern use Giants Dance has been used to refer to:
- A fictional stone circle that was moved from Ireland to Britain by Merlin[1][3]
- Stonehenge, England: the megalithic stone circle[4]
- Waun Mawn, Wales: a proposed identification of the dismantled megalithic stone circle[5]
Merlin re-assembling the Giants Dance
Waun Mawn
Stonehenge
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136) (in la). Historia regum Britanniae; original title Latin: De Gestis Britonum, lit. 'On the Deeds of the Britons'.
- ↑ Pearson, Mike Parker; Pollard, Josh; Richards, Colin; Welham, Kate; Kinnaird, Timothy; Shaw, Dave et al. (February 2021). "The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales". Antiquity 95 (379): 85–103. doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.239.
- ↑ Marshall, Henrietta Elizabeth (1920). "Chapter 11: The story of how the Giant's Dance was brought to Britain". An Island Story: A history of England for boys and girls.
- ↑ Kendrick, Sue (2005). "Stonehenge: The Giants' Dance". https://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/stones/stonehenge1.shtml.
- ↑ Alberge, Dalya (12 February 2021). "Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales.
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