Hjaltadans
Hjaltadans (also called Haltadans or Fairy ring) is a stone circle near Houbie, north of Skutes Water on the Scottish Shetland island of Fetlar .
The hard-to-find stone circle is about 11.0 meters in diameter and is made up of 38 stones, 22 of which are still in situ . In the stone circle there is an earth wall 7.9 meters in diameter, with a 1.5 meter wide gap in the southwest. In the middle there are two menhirs .
According to Jákup Jakobsen (1864–1918), Haltadans means ( German “lame or limping dancer” ). This is a reference to the legend that the stone circle was once a circle of dancing trolls and the two rocks in the middle, a violinist and his wife. They had danced all night and were petrified at sunrise.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press 2000, ISBN 0-300-08347-5 .
- Jakob Jakobsen: Det norrøne sprog på Shetland - The Dialect and Place-Names of Shetland . 1897 pp. 116-17
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Coordinates: 60 ° 36 ′ 37 ″ N , 0 ° 51 ′ 55.8 ″ W.