Merry Maiden's Dance
by Vicki Lea Eggen
Title
Merry Maiden's Dance
Artist
Vicki Lea Eggen
Medium
Digital Art - Photographic Art
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The Merry Maidens, also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dans Maen "Stone Dance") are a circle of 19 small stones in a field near Lamorna, Cornwall. This is probably the best preserved of all the stone circles in Cornwall, and it is, unusually, believed to be complete and unaltered.
The stones were arranged with care, for they gradually get smaller as you move from south-west to north-east. This suggests that they were arranged to mirror the wax and wane of the lunar cycle. The stones have been shaped carefully, with leveled tops and flat sides facing the interior of the circle.
The Merry Maidens are so named because local legend tells that the stones were 19 maidens celebrating a wedding who were turned to stone for daring to dance on a Sunday. In the field across the road to the north is a pair of stones called The Pipers, who were supposedly the pipers who played the music for the maidens' dance.
Copyright 2018 by Vicki Lea Eggen, All rights reserved
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May 29th, 2018
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