title: Giant's Dance
text: # 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
  