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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 ...
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-.
The British poet Layamon, inspired by the folkloric accounts of 12th-century cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth, wrote in A.D. 1215: The stones are great; And magic power they have; Men that are...
Stonehenge as interpreted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. 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.
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 ...
Aug 13, 2017 · As Legend Has It. The legend of King Arthur provides another story of the construction of Stonehenge. It is told by the twelfth century writer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain that Merlin brought the stones to the Salisbury Plain from Ireland.
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus; Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
