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	The Bog People
		Tollund Man was discovered in 1950 by two men cutting peat, who were sure he must be a recent murder victim.
		Tollund Man was immediately excavated and transported to a museum, where it was determined that he was 2000 years old.
		Only Tollund Man's head was conserved, and remains to this day on display at the Silkeborg Museum, six miles from his place of death.
	www.mesh5.com /tension/febmarch/bog.htm (0 words)

	Tollund Man
		The Tollund man lived about 2,000 years ago and was buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, a find known as a bog body.
		On May 8 1950 brothers Emil and Viggo were cutting peat for their tile stove and the kitchen range in the Tollund peat bog, 10 km west of Silkeborg, Denmark.
		There were no traces of meat in the man's digestive system, and from the stage of digestion it was obvious that the man had lived for 12 to 24 hours after this last meal.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Tollund_man.html (591 words)

	Tollund Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On May 6, 1950 Hoejgaard brothers from the small village of Tollund were cutting peat for their tile stove and the kitchen range in the Tollund peat bog, 10 km west of Silkeborg, Denmark.
		Tollund Man's age has been confirmed by the latest refinements in radiocarbon dating of small samples of his hair.
		The scientists discovered that the man's last meal had been a kind of soup made from vegetables and seeds, some cultivated seeds and some wild: barley, linseed, 'gold of pleasure', knotweed, bristlegrass, and camomile.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Tollund_Man.html (683 words)

	Tollund Man Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tollund Man is remarkable for the fact that his body, and in particular the face, was so well preserved that he seemed to have died only recently.
		On Monday 6 May 1953 the Højgård brothers from the small village of Tollund were cutting peat for their tile stove and kitchen range in the Bjældskovdal peat bog, 12 km west of Silkeborg, Denmark.
		At first, Tollund Man was believed to be a rich man who had been ritually sacrificed, but recent analysis suggests that he may simply have been a criminal who was hanged and buried in the peat bog.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Tollund_Man (1277 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Tollund Man
		On May 6, 1950, the Højgård brothers from the small village of Tollund were cutting peat for their tile stove and kitchen range in the Bjældskovdal peat bog, 10 km west of Silkeborg, Denmark.
		Tollund Man lay 50 meters away from firm ground, his body arranged in a fetal position, and had been buried under about two meters of peat.
		Examinations and X-rays showed that the man's head was undamaged, and his heart, lungs and liver were well preserved.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Tollund_Man (885 words)

	The Bog People
		Tollund Man was discovered in 1950 by two men cutting peat, who were sure he must be a recent murder victim.
		Tollund Man was immediately excavated and transported to a museum, where it was determined that he was 2000 years old.
		Only Tollund Man's head was conserved, and remains to this day on display at the Silkeborg Museum, six miles from his place of death.
	www.vsd.cape.com /~mesh5/tension/febmarch/bog.htm (1006 words)

	Tollund Man Summary
		The Tollund Mans body and all the findings were preserved extremely well, due to the peat bog in which it lay.
		The last meal, which still remained in the stomach of the Tollund man, consisted of soup made from vegetables and seeds and is evidence of a ritual sacrificial death rather than a punishment for a crime.
		It assisted in the understanding of the age of the Tollund Man, as the scientists knew that the moss was formed in peat bogs in the early Iron Age.
	www.bookrags.com /Tollund_Man (2118 words)

	Tollund Man - Definition, explanation
		The Tollund Man lay 50 meters away from firm ground, his body arranged in a fetal position, and had been buried under about two meters of peat.
		There were no traces of meat in the man's digestive system, and from the stage of digestion it was obvious that the man had lived for 12 to 24 hours after this last meal.
		At first, Tollund Man was believed to be a rich man who had been ritually sacrificed, but recent analysis suggests that he may simply have been a criminal who was hanged and buried in the peat bog.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/to/tollund_man.php (0 words)

	paper1
		This young man was probably hanged and killed as an offering to a goddess, who needed new bridegrooms each winter to go to bed with her to insure a good fertility of the area in the spring (Our Troth; ch 4).
		The poem starts by describing the Tollund man as I have and its description of him is very accurate, describing how even the gruel that he ate was still preserved in his stomach.
		The naked man is preserved by the juices of the goddess as a result of her opening her fen to him.
	www.msu.edu /user/millig11/paper1.html (1310 words)

	The Tollund Man - The Bog
		Next to the place where the Tollund Man was discovered a peat spade had been discovered the day before and a couple of days later another peat spade was discovered close by.
		At the National Museum of Denmark samples were taken from the peat surrounding the Tollund Man. You can find pollen from flowers which is still well-preserved in the peat even after thousands of years, and by using a microscope you can tell what plants the pollen originally came from.
		After the Tollund Man was discovered peat diggers have mentioned that during their digging they came across a pathway made of wooden planks which ran across the bog and right past the place where the bog bodies were discovered.
	www.tollundman.dk /mosen.asp (0 words)

	Tollund Man and Elling Woman
		The main attraction of Silkeborg Museum is the body of Tollund Man. He was discovered in the Bjældskovdal bog some 10 km west of Silkeborg in 1950 by the brothers Emil and Viggo Højgård. The bog body was so well-preserved that their immediate reaction was to call the police.
		Tollund Man was laying in a relaxed position, his legs bent against his abdomen.
		Thus it is reasonable to see Tollund Man as a human sacrifice to the god or gods.
	www.silkeborgmuseum.dk /en/tollund.html (0 words)

	Real Wizards: Mysterious history
		Tollund Man was about 40; he was stripped naked and garrotted before his body was laid to rest in the bog.
		If Tollund Man was the victim of ergot poisoning ('ergotism') he would have suffered convulsions and hallucinations.
		Lindow Man had been struck on the head, strangled and had his throat cut, perhaps to drain the body of blood.
	www.channel4.com /science/microsites/R/real_wizards/mysterious.html (0 words)

	Darkness, The lyrics - Tollund Man
		The curse of the Tollund Man, Nothing worse than that, The curse of the Tollund Man. Accuse-ed of witchcraft, Hung, drawn and halved, Confronted by death, To them I just laugh, Executed for unlawful carnage, (aaaaah!) Buried in peat, just outside Woodbridge.
		The curse of the Tollund Man, Nothing worse than that, The curse of the Tollund Man. Oooooooh, The eyes of the Tollund Man, Rise did the Tollund Man, To unleash the terror, Upon everyone, That he saw.
		The curse of the Tollund Man, Nothing worse than that, The curse of the Tollund Man, This evil must not be unearthed, The curse of the Tollund Man, Nothing worse than that, The curse of the Tollund Man, This evil must not be unearthed.
	www.lyricsbox.com /darkness-the-lyrics-tollund-man-c4xc8wp.html (193 words)

	The Tollund Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The man’s body was in the fetal position, hidden underneath two meters of peat.
		Radiocarbon dating was performed on a sample of the Tollund Man’s hair showed that he might have died around 350 BC.
		The fate of the Tollund Man seems that he was hung.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/Information_and_Theories_8/The_Tollund_Man_3113_printer.shtml (547 words)

	The Tollund Man - At the Time of the Tollund Man - The Iron Age
		The Iron Age lasted from approximately 500 B.C. until 800 A.D. The name "Iron Age" is connected with the fact that after the end of the Bronze Age a method for extracting iron was discovered.
		The Tollund Man was alive during the first part of the Iron Age.
		In the basements of the iron-age houses we have discovered supplies of harvested grain, and from studies on the Tollund Man's last meal we know that during the Iron Age people ate a special kind of gruel or porridge made of barley, rye and oat.
	www.tollundman.dk /tollundmandens-tid.asp (0 words)

	Bog People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The body, which became known as the Tollund Man, was lying naked except for a leather cap and belt, with his legs drawn up in the fetal position.
		The Tollund man owes his survival to the special properties of the peat bog.
		The Tollund man was not the only ancient body to be recovered from a bog.
	www.tornadohills.com /strange/bog_people.htm (299 words)

	Tollund Man - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The Tollund man provides an example of what ancient Germanic peoples may have looked like.
		Discovered in a peat bog in Denmark in 1952, the Tollund man was dressed only in a pointed cap and belt.
		Tests later determined that the body was over 2000 years old.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461539769/Tollund_Man.html (47 words)

	info: Tollund_Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Underneath the body was a thin layer of moss.Scientists know that this moss was formed in Danish peat bogs in the early Iron Age, therefore, the body was suspected to have been placed in the bog approximately 2,000 years ago during the early Iron Age.
		The Tollund ManE xtract from the Danish press release: S aturday the 6 th of May 2000 we have a celebration of the 2400 years old Tollund Man with a lot of events.
		The main attraction of Silkeborg Museum is the body of Tollund Man. He was discovered in the BjÃ¦ldskovdal bog some 10 km west of Silkeborg in 1950 by the brothers Emil...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Tollund_Man.html (1224 words)

	The Tollund Man - The Finders
		The Tollund Man was discovered by two brothers, Viggo and Emil Højgaard, and Viggo's wife, Grethe Højgaard.
		At the time John Kauslund was 11 years old and explains that it was his mother who first became aware of something unusual hiding in the bog and managed to dig her way to the Tollund Man.
		They came from Tollund - a small group of houses located a few kilometres from the bog, so even though the bog was located in Bjældskovdal, the body was soon known as the Tollund Man.
	www.tollundman.dk /finderne.asp (0 words)

	The Tollund Man - A Face from Prehistoric Denmark
		The Tollund Man is probably the most well-preserved body from pre-historic times in the world.
		The Tollund Man was alive during the first part of the iron age, 300-400 years B.C. Almost everybody was involved in farm work and that goes for both men, women and children.
		The two museum conservators who did the excavation of the Tollund Man at the National Museum of Denmark, were also the ones who were going to try to attempt to preserve his head.
	www.tollundman.dk (0 words)

	History Teachers' Discussion Forum > Tollund Man
		Aug 29 2004, 11:36 AM Many moons ago I used to make use of a video on Tollund Man. Along with a suitable worksheet, the activity always went down well with year 7s.
		Nov 3 2004, 01:32 PM Years ago the Schools History Project (I think) used to produce a worksheet/booklet on Tollund Man which used sources to interpret the burial.
		Nov 3 2004, 06:32 PM I thought the schools council thingy on Tollund Man was excellent, and the companion stuff on Mark Pullen was even better.
	www.schoolhistory.co.uk /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t3882.html (0 words)

	The Tollund Man
		people', Heaney is imagining that he is there with The Tollund Man and what the crowd's reactions as the tumbril drove past them would be.
		Here, Heaney is trying to empathise with the man. He knows that if he visited the scene of the sacrificial killings he would be able to recognise the same vengeful practices that violate his own society.
		"People will point at him as they once did at the Tollund Man but the poet will be separated from them by his ignorance of their language".
	www.studentcentral.co.uk /tollund_man_19276 (432 words)

	Århus Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		It is known that she lived roughly in the same time period as Tollund Man. Elling Woman had a distinctive, braided hair design, which has been diagrammed.
		"Tollund Man" is the well- preserved body of a man from the Middle Ages who was discovered in 1950 in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog near Silkeborg in the Village of Tollund.
		Tollund Man, thought to have been about 40 years old at the time of his death, died by hanging around 350 B.C., was put to rest and remained in the bog for about 2,200 years before being found.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Denmark/Arhus_Amt/Arhus-164970/Things_To_Do-Arhus-R-3.html (2370 words)

	Seamus Heaney: "Bogging In Again" - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - ...
		Glob describes the body's miraculous preservation by the bog after more than twenty centuries, and speculates that the Tollund Man may have been a victim of human sacrifice.
		Heaney says he is "grateful" that the Tollund Man entered his thoughts again as he was writing the poems in District and Circle.
		Being neither alive nor quite dead in his preserved state, the Tollund Man moves through today's "virtual" world as a ghostly go-between with a message for the poet.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /radioprogrammes/voxhumana/061110vh (912 words)

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		The word wizard means "wise man" and next week the truth behind Harry Potter will be unveiled in Real Wizards on Channel 4 when experts look at the evidence for wizardry in the days before Christianity.
		More clues to the origins of wizardry come from Tollund man, preserved in a Danish bog since 400 BC.
		Tollund man might have eaten this gruel to commune with the spirits, acting as a link between his ancestors and the earthly world after he died.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/19/nwiz19.xml (0 words)

	No. 487: The Bog Men
		The Tollund man is neither the first nor the last body from the Danish peat bogs.
		And our Tollund man seems to have been sacrificed to some goddess of the harvest.
		So this ancient man with the gentle face reaches out to tell the continuity of life through death.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi487.htm (0 words)

	The Tollund Man
		This day it's 50 years since his start on a new era in his life and this, of course, have to marked in a proper way.
		There will be guided tours to the location where the Tollund Man was found.
		The 19 m long true copy of the Hjortspring Boat for the first time leaves the waters of Als, when the 20 oarsmen paddles through the lakes at Silkeborg as a rememberence of the great art of shipbuilding at the time of the Tollund Man.....
	home6.inet.tele.dk /hjortspr/Tollundmand.htm (0 words)

	[No title]
		Read the excerpt below from Politiken about the Tollund man. It may throw some light on the poem and prove useful in interpreting it.
		How is the Tollund man described in section I. Compare this description with the photo.
		Who are the scattered, ambushed and stockinged corpses referred to and what is their connection to the Tollund man (see also Seamus Heaney's biography).
	www.haderslev-katedralskole.dk /kf/tollundman.htm (596 words)

	The Mummy Congress by Heather Pringle
		Tollund Man himself rests in a bulletproof case.
		Over the years, explained Fischer sadly, wandering psychiatric patients had become greatly distressed at the sight of the dead man, and after one or two disturbing incidents, the museum had reluctantly invested in a bulletproof case for its most famous resident.
		When Fischer recently squired a visiting Israeli professor around the museum, his guest was startled by the security in Tollund Man's room -- not that it was too much, but that it was far too lax.
	www.heatherpringle.com /books/mummy_excerpt.html (323 words)

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