| Haltadans | |
| Other Name: | Fairy Ring |
| Coordinates: | 60.6102°N -0.8639°W |
| Location: | Shetland, Scotland |
| Built: | During the Neolithic Period |
| Architecture: | British pre-Roman Architecture |
Haltadans, also known as Fairy Ring or Haltadans stone circle, is a stone circle on the island of Fetlar in Shetland, Scotland.[1] This site is a ring of 38 stones,[2] of which 22 are still fixed in the soil, and it is 37feet in diameter.[3] Inside this is an earthen ring 26feet in diameter, with a 5feet gap in the southwest side. In the center of the rings are two rectangular pillars.
According to Jakob Jakobsen, the name Haltadans means: "lame or limping dance".[4] This is a reference to the legend that the circle of stones was once a circle of dancing trolls and that the two rock pillars in the centre were once a fiddler and his wife. They had fiddled and danced all night long, and, heedless of the time, were still fiddling and dancing when the sun rose and petrified them all.