Giant's Dance

The Giant's Dance or Giants' Dance is a stone circle in an Arthurian legend first documented in , by Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1136.

In the Merlin legend

Geoffrey of Monmouth describes it as a megalithic stone circle, whose stones were used to build the Neolithic Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, 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.

Modern use of name

In modern use Giant's Dance has been used to refer to:

• A fictional stone circle that was moved from Ireland to Britain by Merlin
• Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England: the megalithic stone circle
• Waun Mawn, Pembrokeshire, Wales: a proposed identification of the dismantled megalithic stone circle

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