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. original title .
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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