Giant's Dance Explained

The Giant's Dance or Giants' Dance is a stone circle in an Arthurian legend first documented in .

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.^{[1] [2]}

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^{[2] [3]}
• Stonehenge, England: the megalithic stone circle^[4]
• Waun Mawn, Wales: a proposed identification of the dismantled megalithic stone circle^[5]

Notes and References

1. Pearson . Mike Parker . Mike Parker Pearson . Pollard . Josh . Richards . Colin . Welham . Kate . Kinnaird . Timothy . Shaw . Dave . Simmons . Ellen . Stanford . Adam . Bevins . Richard . Ixer . Rob . Ruggles . Clive . Rylatt . Jim . Edinborough . Kevan . 6 . The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales . Antiquity . February 2021 . 95 . 379 . 85–103 . 10.15184/aqy.2020.239 . free .
2. Book: . c. 1136 . The History of the Kings of Britain . Historia regum Britanniae . la . . original title Latin: De Gestis Britonum||On the Deeds of the Britons.
3. Book: 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.
4. Web site: Sue . Kendrick . 2005 . Stonehenge: The Giants' Dance . Time Travel Britain .
5. News: Dalya . Alberge . 12 February 2021 . Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales . .