Today, there are very few bogs that exist in northern Europe due to excessive cutting. Attempts have been made to regrow bogs in Germany, but the process is very slow (a raised bog may grow a millimeter in only one year). (Deem, 1988-2003).
THE BODIES OF "THE BOG PEOPLE".
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"The Bog People" are among the most perfectly preserved bodies in the world, due to the special chemical properties of the peat bog. In peaty conditions, the preservation of the flesh and blood sometimes occurs while the bones of such bodies usually become spongy or decompose. The peat has acids that have preserved these bodies down the last detail (such as hair and nails). It is unknown how many bog bodies have been found - many have been lost or reburied since their discovery. (http://tornadohills.com/strange/bog_people.htm). Given the modern scientific techniques and technology in the world today, scientists and archaeologists can gather important information about the lives and deaths of these people and how they looked during their life, through facial reconstructions and remains of hair and clothing. .
SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES.
A very important tool in archaeology is Radiocarbon dating (also known as Carbon 14 or C14), which determines how much radioactive carbon is present in the remains of what was once a living organism. People and animals regularly take radioactive carbon into their lives by eating meat and plants. The radioactive carbon is no longer refilled after an organism dies. The radioactive carbon activity increasingly declines, it can no longer be detected after 70, 000 years. The radiation's strength can therefore be used to determine the age of an organism. Using this method, scientists can determine the age of various types of materials such as charcoal, peat, or shells. Bog bodies have been dated using this method. (http://www.bogpeople.org/bog_uk/index.html). Another spectacular technique used in bog body research is the reconstruction of facial features.
In Bog Queen, Heaney uses the tell-tale corpse of the woman to imply Ireland. ... (Bog Queen). ... Man is made to own things, to transform objects, land, people?... People kill for revenges and for possession. ... twice in Bog Queen and Tollund Man. ...
My opinion is torn between science and religion in the matter of the bog people. In the name of science, it's important to dig these people up and dissect them in order to find out what their past was. ... If they are modern man like the movie said they are then why exactly do we have to disregard all morals and pull them out of the bog water? ... Science could be used for much better uses today rather than examining people who have been long dead. ... Just a few thoughts and feelings were awakened by the bog people video and poems. ...
Nobody, people who are unimportant and blend in the public easily. Nobody- people who are ordinary and insignificant. ... Dickinson shuts herself from the outside world, making her bond very closely to people around her, people 'like' her. ... Bogs, the swampy place where frogs live. ... Bogs, acting like mud, which can sink one's individuality. ...
In the poem, "I"m Nobody," by the famous poet Emily Dickenson, she talks about people being a nobody. Quite a few people believe that being a nobody symbolizes failure. ... Also, in the time the poem was written, people were only considered "somebody" if they were so rich they did not have to work. ... Dickenson wrote in the poem, "To tell your name the livelong day, To an admiring bog!" ... So an admiring bog, or something just sitting there and decaying, is a somebody. ...
Today, there are many people living in the Copan Valley. ... There are now about 25,000 people living in the Copan Valley, about the same number that lived there before Copan collapsed. ... You may want to examine this pollen slide, which comes from a sample taken from the bottom of a bog in a farming area outside of Copan....
Greasy Lake was "the place" for the rough people to go." ... Animals thrived in the lakes bogs. ... For instance, the title "Greasy Lake " reflects the greasy people who hang there. ... The danger of the lake reflected the dangerous lives of the people who went there. ... The lake rears it's ugly head when the dead man emerges from the bog. ...
Heaney's second memory is one of his grandfather digging turf on Toner's bog. He clearly expresses that his grandfather is a very successful digger, and can dig "more than any other man on Toner's bog." In fact he reveals that his grandfather was more than a successful digger but the most successful digger on the bog. Once again Heaney seems to be exploring his own feelings of inadequacy up against people with such high reputations. ...
The big baggy sleeves many people are familiar with are a later fashion, though quite fun, and there's no reason not to make your leine with these sleeves if you want to, they'll just be 16th century rather than early period. ... There's a lot we don't know for certain (like every aspect of Celtic Reconstructionism), including actual period construction methods, normal width of fabric and so on, as no one's dug one up out of an Irish bog that we know of yet. There are Danish bog examples to help give us some clues, though there seem to have been substantial variat...