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- 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.
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In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (VIII, ix-xii) occurs the oldest and almost the only known legend about the most famous megalithic monument in Britain. The story accounts for Stonehenge as the funeral monument erected for hundreds of noble Britons slain by the treacherous Hengist and his Saxons, and it was for centuries ...
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GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH AND STONEHENGE. IN Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (VIII, ix-xii) occurs the oldest and almost the only known legend' about the most famous megalithic monument in Britain. The story. accounts for Stonehenge as the funeral monument erected for hundreds of noble Britons slain by the treacherous Hengist and.
Dec 30, 2021 · One of the earliest recorded tales of ancient Britain relates to the building of Stonehenge. Written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in about 1136, just six years or so after the very first documentary reference to Stonehenge by Henry of Huntingdon, it is a lengthy account of how Merlin the wizard organised, on behalf of Aurelius Ambrosius, the ...
Aug 13, 2017 · Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) (c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
Mar 30, 2017 · Geoffrey of Monmouth’s interpretation of the Stonehenge monument has influenced popular ideas about the site for centuries. Though his myth of ‘Merlin as architect’ has been debunked, it along with Roman accounts, have painted Stonehenge as a place of great magic and helped establish a link between the monument and the Druids.
Legends of this feat of engineering skill must have trickled down to the twelfth century AD because Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain, describes Merlin overseeing the transportation of a stone circle called the 'Giant’s Ring' to Salisbury Plain from a place far to the west – Mount Killaraus in Ireland. These ...
At first sight nothing could seem more ridiculous than Geoffrey of Mon-. mouth's claim that the stones of Stonehenge were brought by giants 'from. the farthest ends of Africa'. One wonders whether Geoffrey, who spent much of his time in Oxford and London and was well connected in both ecclesiasti-.
