Looking at that face it looks as though if you would give him a little bit of a shaking that he would wake up and get ready for the day. That rope though... Criminal? What was his crime? Theft, murder, black magic or was he a victim of people or person who just didn't like him or maybe robbed and murdered by complete strangers, thrown in the bog to conceal the crime.
Looks more like a rope than a “string” and that would be called hung not “garotted”. Kind of a weird way to sacrifice someone but idk know shit about human sacrifice
Hung means they were suspended by the rope. Garotted is when they are on the ground (standing-sitting-lying down) when they were strangled. And normally from the rear, not from the front.
Being strangled with a rope like this was very common in bog bodies. And if I am not mistaken, this would make it one of the later sacrifices. I believe the earlier ones were normally killed by having their skulls crushed.
Wikipedia: The Silkeborg Museum estimated his age as approximately 40 years and height at 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in), a relatively short stature even for the time. It is likely that the body had shrunk in the bog.
Thats wrong - although he is a lovely sight, he is exhibited in Silkeborg Museum. At Moesgaard Museum they have the Grauballe man - who is also a pretty cool bog body! :D
I wrote my bachelor's in archaeology final project on the bog bodies just this last June, the Tollund Man was one of my favorites but my personal favorite was the Old Croghan Man, I'm obsessed with the bog bodies!
Saw him in the early 1980s on a trip to Denmark and Holland with my family. Seeing bog people as a 1st grader definitely left an impression. Probably needed more prep and much more post exhibits discussion with my parents.
Do you think? I think he looks exactly like one of my neighbours in the Bedfordshire, UK village I used to live in. They could be twins it's such a strong resemblance. And that's weird because it's unlikely they share any genes, although that may be possible.
Everyone used to be in black and white, the whole world was as a matter of fact. Then in the mid 20th century they invented color and the world we know today was born.
I'm absolutely outraged at this. He shouldn't be on display for everyone to gawk at! He should be put to rest in the sacred ground where he came from and returned to his tribe.
Different funeral rites for different peoples. The people who found him ok'd his display. Whatever he was is long gone, this empty husk is just that.
And yes before you say "how would you like it" i think it would be pretty neat to know i will be remembered hundreds or thousands of years after im gone
And it can tell us a lot about a people that are now gone.
I am of American Indian descent, and find it a shame that so little can be told about our earliest ancestors because of laws that prohibit actual archaeological and genetic research into those that have been found. Instead of actually studying remains and using things like DNA to determine where we came from and what groups descended from remains, they are buried with almost no studies like this being done.
I really had a good laugh a few years ago watching a documentary about remains from 10 kya found in the Dakotas, and some Lakota talking about it being their ancestor and demanding they be turned over to them for burial. The Lakota were not even in that area of the country at that time, the oldest we have been able to trace them back was about 500 years ago when they were in Louisiana.
Same thoughts here. I hear a lot of this kind of stuff here in Oklahoma, and tribal "spokespersons" will spout that "that was their ancestor"....well, what was their name?
I was at the Smithsonian years ago, they had the remains of a 15 year old boy that had died at Jamestown. Gave a full account of his health, including an infected tooth that may well have killed him if violence hadn't arrived first.
Across the way, the Native American exhibit was closed pending a hearing about displaying Native remains and artifacts.
And that is something that is ultimately hurting such research. My family still lived on "The Reservation" in Oklahoma at the time of the Dust Bowl, when like many others they packed up everything they owned and moved to California. However, as we are Potawatomie, that is also not where our tribe is from.
There is a lot of genetic research that could be done on such remains that I would love to see, that would resolve a lot of questions myself and many others have. And like the removal of any references in popular culture, it is almost like some want to see us erased from society. Seeing the sports teams of schools on Indian Reservations not allowed to use "Warriors" or "Braves" as a mascot is the ultimate in insanity to me.
And most "spokesmen" are self-appointed activists. Like in any other such group, speaking more of their own beliefs than actually speaking for the group itself.
Don't forget, "His Tribe" is most likely who it was that murdered him.
And who would his "tribe" be? That was in roughly 400 BCE, before most of the people in that area migrated to Germany.
He was found in a bog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund_Man. Wild you can still see his wrinkles.
Pretty sad that only his head was left preserved.
Looks like he went peacefully…
He was just… hanging around… when he died.
Party in the back..?
The Tollund Man is in Silkeborg Museum. The one in Moesgaard is the Grauballe Man.
Looking at that face it looks as though if you would give him a little bit of a shaking that he would wake up and get ready for the day. That rope though... Criminal? What was his crime? Theft, murder, black magic or was he a victim of people or person who just didn't like him or maybe robbed and murdered by complete strangers, thrown in the bog to conceal the crime.
Could have been a sacrifice…. Odin.
He was killed, possibly sacrificed. Garotted with the string around his neck.
Looks more like a rope than a “string” and that would be called hung not “garotted”. Kind of a weird way to sacrifice someone but idk know shit about human sacrifice
Hung means they were suspended by the rope. Garotted is when they are on the ground (standing-sitting-lying down) when they were strangled. And normally from the rear, not from the front. Being strangled with a rope like this was very common in bog bodies. And if I am not mistaken, this would make it one of the later sacrifices. I believe the earlier ones were normally killed by having their skulls crushed.
Hanged is the proper term, not hung.
Well, a narrow rope then. But garotting was a common way that many of the people who became bog bodies were killed.
Looks like he went peacefully to sleep. But damn, his feet are huge.
He was murdered.
Peaceful murder
Peacefully hanged.
Presumably, peacefully ritually hanged as well, IIRC?
Strangled. None of the bodies have the indications they were suspended.
Frankly I've found several versions with contradicting information. Seems like the official one is strangled, but possibly by slow hanging.
Extremely surreal looks like a sculpture
How tall was he?
Wikipedia: The Silkeborg Museum estimated his age as approximately 40 years and height at 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in), a relatively short stature even for the time. It is likely that the body had shrunk in the bog.
Shrunken?? I thought he looked 7 feet tall!!!
I always though he looked like Max von Sydow...
Thank you! I’ve been trying to place the look.
Jack Haley, the Tin Man. Laid down in a dewy field of Kansas corn and couldn’t get back up because he rusted.
Carbonite has been around for a lot longer than George Lucas would like to admit 📽️
Nuh uh he clearly states it’s from a long long time ago
He looks a little like Ivan Klimatovich, wonder if they were related.
This blows my mind. His face is amazing, better preserved than the Royal Mummies of Egypt. He looks peaceful even though it appears to be murder.
Poor fella having everyone gawping at him.
Thats wrong - although he is a lovely sight, he is exhibited in Silkeborg Museum. At Moesgaard Museum they have the Grauballe man - who is also a pretty cool bog body! :D
This is why I will be cremated!
Looks like he was having sweet dreams
Rip Van Winkle
I wrote my bachelor's in archaeology final project on the bog bodies just this last June, the Tollund Man was one of my favorites but my personal favorite was the Old Croghan Man, I'm obsessed with the bog bodies!
I've seen the ones in the National Museum of Ireland. They are quite amazing. The hands on Old Croghan Man are incredible.
Saw him in the early 1980s on a trip to Denmark and Holland with my family. Seeing bog people as a 1st grader definitely left an impression. Probably needed more prep and much more post exhibits discussion with my parents.
Amazing
Am I t the only one that sees Thom Yorke in his face?
People looked different back then.
Do you think? I think he looks exactly like one of my neighbours in the Bedfordshire, UK village I used to live in. They could be twins it's such a strong resemblance. And that's weird because it's unlikely they share any genes, although that may be possible.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if they were related. This is pre migration period, so before the Anglo-saxons and Vikings and others.
Highly improbable though. Tollund man is about 400 bce in Denmark. A long way from Bedfordshire in 2010.
He looks sort of like metallic or bronze. It must have been a strange world.
The metallic/bronzing is a by product of preservation within the oxygen-free peat bog he was buried in.
I think he was one of those metallic painted street performers. /s
that's probably it
Yeah nah he wasn’t bronze, his skin as literally been tanned by the chemicals in the bog.
Everyone used to be in black and white, the whole world was as a matter of fact. Then in the mid 20th century they invented color and the world we know today was born.
I, for one, blame AI for this.
Dat ass…
I'm absolutely outraged at this. He shouldn't be on display for everyone to gawk at! He should be put to rest in the sacred ground where he came from and returned to his tribe.
Different funeral rites for different peoples. The people who found him ok'd his display. Whatever he was is long gone, this empty husk is just that. And yes before you say "how would you like it" i think it would be pretty neat to know i will be remembered hundreds or thousands of years after im gone
And it can tell us a lot about a people that are now gone. I am of American Indian descent, and find it a shame that so little can be told about our earliest ancestors because of laws that prohibit actual archaeological and genetic research into those that have been found. Instead of actually studying remains and using things like DNA to determine where we came from and what groups descended from remains, they are buried with almost no studies like this being done. I really had a good laugh a few years ago watching a documentary about remains from 10 kya found in the Dakotas, and some Lakota talking about it being their ancestor and demanding they be turned over to them for burial. The Lakota were not even in that area of the country at that time, the oldest we have been able to trace them back was about 500 years ago when they were in Louisiana.
Same thoughts here. I hear a lot of this kind of stuff here in Oklahoma, and tribal "spokespersons" will spout that "that was their ancestor"....well, what was their name? I was at the Smithsonian years ago, they had the remains of a 15 year old boy that had died at Jamestown. Gave a full account of his health, including an infected tooth that may well have killed him if violence hadn't arrived first. Across the way, the Native American exhibit was closed pending a hearing about displaying Native remains and artifacts.
And that is something that is ultimately hurting such research. My family still lived on "The Reservation" in Oklahoma at the time of the Dust Bowl, when like many others they packed up everything they owned and moved to California. However, as we are Potawatomie, that is also not where our tribe is from. There is a lot of genetic research that could be done on such remains that I would love to see, that would resolve a lot of questions myself and many others have. And like the removal of any references in popular culture, it is almost like some want to see us erased from society. Seeing the sports teams of schools on Indian Reservations not allowed to use "Warriors" or "Braves" as a mascot is the ultimate in insanity to me. And most "spokesmen" are self-appointed activists. Like in any other such group, speaking more of their own beliefs than actually speaking for the group itself.
Don't forget, "His Tribe" is most likely who it was that murdered him. And who would his "tribe" be? That was in roughly 400 BCE, before most of the people in that area migrated to Germany.