129. Nennius imputes to the Saxons the murder of three
hundred British chiefs; a crime not unsuitable to their
savage manners. But we are not obliged to believe (see
Jeffrey of Monmouth, 1. viii. c. 9-12) that Stonehenge is
their monument, which the giants had formerly transported
from Africa to Ireland, and which was removed to Britain by
the order of Ambrosius and the art of Merlin.