#tollundman

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

@tollundmanbog you’ve single-handedly inspired me to read all of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables

(apparently tollundman and tollundmanbog are different users and people, and my memory is a ramshackle hut)

[blogaprimoramentohumano]

The Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula, in Denmark. The man's physical features were so well preserved that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim. Twelve years before Tollund Man's discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman, had been found in the same bog. Though the cause of death was determined to be hanging, scholars believe the man was a human sacrifice, rather than an executed criminal, because of the arranged position of his body, and the fact that his eyes and mouth were closed. DISCOVERY On 8 May 1950, peat cutters (Viggo and Emil Hojgaard) in the Bjældskovdal peat bog, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Silkeborg, Denmark discovered a corpse in the peat layer which appeared so fresh that they at first believed they had discovered a recent murder victim. The Tollund Man lay 60 metres (200 ft) away from firm ground, buried under 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) of peat, his body arranged in a fetal position. #tollundman #denmark #archeology #arqueologia #mummy #mumia #discovery #descoberta (em Denmark) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN71Dvqs0V2/?igshid=1m7uf0a09xi1p

[ksves-blog]

Tollund Man height the Silkeborg Museum estimated his age as approximately 40 years and height at 1.61 metres (5 ft 3 in)

Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.[1] He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula.[2] The man's physical features were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the time of discovery for a recent murder victim.[3] Twelve years before Tollund Man's discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman, had been found in the same bog.

[malteeskestad]

Tollundmanden (Tollund Man). In my favorite black ballpen.

[bogblogging]

Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic

“Over 500 Iron Age bog bodies and skeletons dating to between 800 B.C. and A.D. 200 have been discovered in Denmark alone, with more unearthed in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Much of the bodies' skin, hair, clothes, and stomach contents have been remarkably well preserved, thanks to the acidic, oxygen-poor conditions of peat bogs, which are made up of accumulated layers of dead moss.”

- Excerpt from “Who Were the Ancient Bog Mummies? Surprising New Clues” from National Geographic by Christine Dell'Amore

Full article here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140718-bog-bodies-denmark-archaeology-science-iron-age/

[bloodroyale]

tollundman replied to your post: that was exhausting

Im so fucking sad

Ive been wrecked. goddammit. why did I ever turn on a tv? is this what I wanted for myself?