On May 8th, 1950, two Danish men were cutting peat at Tollund Fen in Denmark when suddenly they saw a human face bulge from the peat. Horrified, they had first thought it to be the buried remains of a murder victim but it turned out to be something totally different and the local police called for archaeologist Peter Glob. The bog body became known as the Tollund man, he was lying naked except for a leather cap and belt, with his legs drawn up in the fetal position. When the peat around his neck was removed, archaeologists discovered the rope which he was hanged by about 2, 000 years ago. The Tollund man was not the only ancient body recovered from a bog. In fact, hundreds of men, women, and children have been discovered during peat-cutting activities decades or centuries ago in northwestern Europe - particularly in Denmark, the Netherlands, northern Germany, Ireland, and Great Britain. (http://tornadohills.com/strange/bog_people.htm). These people are known as "The Bog People." This term is used to label the preserved remains of the people (dating from the Metholistic period) who have been recovered from peat bogs. (VanMeter, 1998). This report will focus on the description of these mysterious people, their fate, scientific research that is performed on the bodies, famous bog discoveries, and future of the bog bodies. .
WHAT IS A BOG?.
A bog is a permanent wetland, and looks like a regular land. In fact, a bog is more like a spongy "floating carpet" of land. The reason for this is because underneath the surface the bog is full of water (90 - 95%). Bogs are mainly composed of water and peat (which are plants that have been decaying for thousands of years). In the past, people would go into the bogs to dig peat, which can be processed for industrial purposes such as heat and fuel. Following the introduction of machinery, more peat was cut - which meant more bogs were being destroyed.
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...
