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During the growth of the Pictish village, the blowing beach sand heaped up around its walls, and some of the people took to living in underground houses sunk into the sand. The British diggers found remains of their pottery, tools and weapons of stone, bone and iron, and many mysterious pebbles painted with crude designs. The pebbles are believed to be connected in some way with their custom of tattooing their bodies...
...Fearers. Except for such bizarre details, the Pictish way of life foreshadowed that of the Shetlanders today. They raised grain, caught fish and seals and gathered seabirds and their eggs. But they must have had some odd ideas, perhaps a part of their religion. A medieval chronicler, says Digger Hamilton, describes them as "Picts who did marvels in the morning and the evening, in building walled towns, but at midday they entirely lost their strength and lurked, through, fear, in little underground houses...
...earliest version of the legend: around 800 A.D. there lived in northwest Britain a Pictish chief named Tristan, who slew a ravening monster and married a beautiful princess. From that point on, the story grew-with embroidery and embellishments...
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