Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by the Stones of Stofast on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Lunna Ness peninsula in Lunnasting, Shetland Islands, Britain, United Kingdom. Unlike man made standing stones found elsewhere in Scotland, these house sized boulders are a remarkable natural phenomenon created entirely by ancient ice movement and climate shifts. The stones were originally part of a nunatak, an exposed, rocky mountain ridge that peered above a massive glacier. When the ice sheets began to retreat, the ridge collapsed. A gargantuan boulder weighing roughly 2,000 tonnes was carried a short distance by the moving ice before being dumped tall and proud on the hill. According to local myth, the rolling hills and scattered boulders of Shetland were shaped by quarrelsome giants. Legends say that giants who inhabited different parts of the islands endlessly squabbled over territory and fishing rights. When tempests flared, they would rip massive boulders from the earth and hurl them across miles of land at their rivals. Solitary, massive rocks like the Stanes of Stofast were long believed by locals to be the missiles left behind by these ancient creatures. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30
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