Robert Wace’s Roman de Brut from about 1155AD retells this story for a Norman French audience. There is no a stone there which has not some healing virtue.”Īnd so off to Ireland goes Uther along with Merlin and 15,000 men to fetch the Giant’s Dance. With the like success they cured wounds also, adding only the application of some herbs. For their method was to wash the stones, and put their sick into the water, which infallibly cured them. Their design in this was to make baths in them, when they should be taken with any illness. The giants of old brought them from the farthest coasts of Africa, and placed them in Ireland, while they inhabited that country.

They are mystical stones, and of a medicinal virtue. “I entreat your majesty to forbear vain laughter for what I say is without vanity. When Aurelius laughs at the idea of going such a long way when there are ample stones in Britain, Merlin continues: They are stones of a vast magnitude and wonderful quality and if they can be placed here, as they are there, round this spot of ground, they will stand for ever.” For there is a structure of stones there, which none of this age could raise without a profound knowledge of the mechanical arts.

“If you are desirous to honour the burying-place of these man with an everlasting monument, send for the Giant’s Dance, which is in Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland.

1136AD) when Aurelius Ambrosius – recently annointed King of Britain and the brother of Uther Pendragon – seeks his advice for a lasting memorial to the British princes treacherously slain by the Saxons during a truce. Merlin makes his first appearance in the Stonehenge story in Book 8, Chapter 10, of Geoffrey of Monmouth‘s epic work “Historia Regum Britanniae” (The History of the Kings of Britain, c.

Stone Lord by J.P. Reedman