The Tollund Man

Tollund Man Tollund Man is one of the most famous swamps in Europe. In the early 1950s, he was found with Graubalman. Dead bodies of swamps recovered from the past have spread widely in northern Europe, especially in Denmark, Germany and Ireland. Peat holds the body completely due to anaerobic conditions and knows that the body is black, but their fingertips, hair, and clothes are not damaged. Seamus Heaney used the marsh in his poems to use "the history of conquest of Ireland in their meditation, first and foremost, Viking, later to find in British".

Recently, Tollund Man is especially enjoying the busy afterlife. In 2015, he was sent through a micro CT scan commonly used for fossils to the Natural History Museum in Paris. An ancient DNA expert tried to obtain a sample of genetic material using the femur of Tollund Man. They failed, but they did not give up. Next time I will use rocky bones at the bottom of the skull. This is a more promising DNA source because it is denser than human bone. Then there is Tollund Man's hair, which may eventually become his most troubling part. Just before I arrived, Tollund Man's hat was removed to get hair samples for the first time. By analyzing how the numbers of mites along a chain differ, Copenhagen researchers hope to summarize the road map of all the places Tollund Man traveled throughout his life. "This is amazing, I hardly believe that this is true," Nelson said.

This is what Tollund Man's visitors do. Seamus Heaney felt this and wrote a series of unforgettable, melancholy poems inspired by the marshes. "When he was on a coach, his sad freedom came to me, I should drive, I should name the name Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard," Heaney wrote in his poem "Tollund Man ". It is difficult to know exactly the number of bogs (depending on whether you are counting only the skeleton of flesh or swamp), but the number can be several hundred. Their first records dates back to the 17th century and has appeared quite often since then. (Previously, dead bodies found in wetlands were often buried back in the local cemetery immediately.)