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Stonehenge the video
Finally here is the video from our visit to Stonehenge in March….
Hint: Watch the video in HD!
Stonehenge
The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric’s 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning “precipice”, a hanging or supported stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng “not far from Salisbury” recorded by 11th-century writers are “supported stones”. William Stukeley in 1740 notes, “Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire…I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging stones.” Christopher Chippindale’s Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning “stone”, and either hencg meaning “hinge” (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or hen(c)en meaning “hang” or “gallows” or “instrument of torture”. Like Stonehenge’s trilithons, medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, rather than the inverted L-shape more familiar today.