This was the power of the voice of Merlin, the magician, that when the king required a monument to be built for the people, the magician raised his voice in song. And the sound of that song raised a circle of stones, known as The Giant's Dance, that stood in the centre of Ireland. And the stones were carried across the sea by the power of the voice, so that Merlin the magician moved The Giant's Dance from the centre of Ireland to the centre of Britain, where it stands now in the place that is known as Stonehenge.
And all the time the stones were on that journey, the voice of the magician was always raised in song, and that song was the source of his strength.
- From a story first recorded in twelfth-century England by the chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth.
