Giant's Dance
# Giant's Dance

The Giant's Dance or Giants' Dance is a stone circle in an Arthurian legend first documented c.1136 in Historia Regum Britanniae.

## 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.

## 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
* Stonehenge, England: the megalithic stone circle
* Waun Mawn, Wales: a proposed identification of the dismantled megalithic stone circle
* Merlin re-assembling the Giants Dance
* Waun Mawn
* Stonehenge
