Stonehenge means ‘Stone gallows’, from OE stán (Icel. steinn) + hengen (Icel. hangi, plur. hangar in the meaning of gallows). See: http://users.telenet.be/Hafronska/Icelandic_equivalents_of_the_English_place-names_(uncorrected_version).doc
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