Английская Википедия:Haltadans
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Haltadans, also known as Fairy Ring or Haltadans stone circle, is a stone circle on the island of Fetlar in Shetland, Scotland.[1] This site is a ring of 38 stones,[2] of which 22 are still fixed in the soil, and it is Шаблон:Convert in diameter.[3] Inside this is an earthen ring Шаблон:Convert in diameter, with a Шаблон:Convert gap in the southwest side.[1] In the center of the rings are two rectangular pillars.[1][3]
According to Jakob Jakobsen, the name Haltadans means: "lame or limping dance".[4] This is a reference to the legend that the circle of stones was once a circle of dancing trolls and that the two rock pillars in the centre were once a fiddler and his wife.[3] They had fiddled and danced all night long, and, heedless of the time, were still fiddling and dancing when the sun rose and petrified them all.[2]
See also
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- Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany
- List of stone circles
- Neolithic Europe
References
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