Spaceman

He was found on the seventh day of the month Maius during the reign of Antonius Augustus Pius; half dead and wandering out of the Pictish wilds. Soldiers from the Sixth Legion stationed at The Wall of Hadrian found him and he fell into a deep faint.  They took him to their garrison along the Wall, nursing him back to health enough to carry him to Eboracum for more extensive care.  The stranger spoke incoherently in a barbarian tongue and his dress was alien and unlike the thick plaid or furs of the Picts.  He was also clean-shaven, though a beard was growing in due to his time in the wilderness and his skin lacked the blue war-paintings of the northern Celts.  The legionnaires were confounded by the stranger and started to tell stories to each other as they returned to the mighty Wall that divided the civilized world from barbarian wilds.  What, they said, could be in the crags and valleys of the Picts?  Where did this stranger, barbarian he must be, come from?  They now stared out into Scotland with more curiosity and wonder than before.  The stranger, every now and then stirring and looking about wildly and stammering in that barbarous tongue, was cared for by the physicians in Eboracum.  He silenced rested in the city; no search party was sent out to look for his village or find out from where he came.  A message was sent to the governor of Britannia, who decided to visit the stranger.  The man was moved to the governor's palace and cared for by his own personal physician.  Local experts have examined the man's clothes, and have decided that he must com from the far north of the Pictish lands, as his clothes are of an odd design and texture; neither wool or leather.  A report was sent to Rome that included the strange men that is now the talk of the province: no reply has yet come.