Talk:Tollund Man

message: How do we know he was hanged?
The Tollund man was hanged, as an act of sacrifice! If it's an update then there's conclusive new evidence for this statement not found in the above article. What is it? How do we know he was hanged?
:I have seen enough reliable supportive evidence to convince me that he was hanged. The ritual food which he had consumed is supportive; there are remarkable similarities with Elling Woman; there are rope marks on the neck; this is moreover an uncontroversial subject. Pretty much the entirety of the archaeological world is happy with it being a hanging and a ritual one at that, and to get any form of consensus there is an achievement in its own right, which kind of marks this line of enquiry as a dead letter. Anyone know whether water is wet, by the way? user:sjc
::PS I forgot to mention, when discovered there was a noose around his neck. user:sjc
:::Much of that was in the article already; I was just moving the complaint off the article page itself.  :-)  --KQ
::I surmised as much. It was addressed to the original inquirer rather than yourself KQ. user:sjc
I would not dispute that the man was hung.  But my initial speculation, having linked here while researching ergot, was that he very likely may have been displaying many of the symptoms of ergotism (ie psychotic episodes, hallucinations, increased libido, etc).  Such manifestations could easily induce panic in small towns and villages of the time.  Ergotism was prone to striking such places in plague-like waves (based on intermittent infection of local food crops), but it's correlation to food was centuries from being understood at the time.  It would not be a stretch to theorize that some small communities might resort to the 'removal' of infected individuals in an effort to curb such seemingly infectious outbreaks....
I find this absolutely fascinating and am compelled to know if there was, subsequently, a thorough excavation of the particular bog in which this body was found?  K10wnsta (talk) 21:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of death

message: I believe that the wikipedia contents have been taken from the book "The Bog People" by P.V. Glob without accrediting him. I don't know the legal blarb about putting information from books on the internet, I'm sure it's ok to quote, but I think the author of the work should be given credit for his words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.32.11 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 28 October 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I created a Source section with his book. RhinoMind (talk) 22:48, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced contents

message: The statement: The story of this discovery is likely to have been the basis of a thriller novel by US author Erin Hart titled "Haunted Ground" is not very accurate. From the information given it could taken from just about any discovery of a bogbody. They were almost all found in connection with peatdigging and they all have remarkably wellpreserved facefeatures (although adimttedly the Tollund mans face features are probably the best preserved), and they all have red hair on account of the chemical reactions in the bog. I suggest that if there is a consensus for having this kind of irrelevant information, at least it should be moved to the article Bog body. --Saddhiyama (talk) 10:28, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The novel

message: Hi! Please check the dates of the 14C dating as there is a much more reliable source available: J. van der Plicht, W.A.B. van der Sanen, A.T. Aerts, H.J. Streurman (2004): Dating bog bodies by means of 14C-AMS. In: Journal of Archaeological Science 31:471-491 http://cio.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/2004/JArchaeolScivdPlicht/2004JArchaeolScivdPlicht.pdf --Bullenwächter (talk) 06:37, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I hadn't noticed the previous source, but as it has "Harry Potter" in the headline it could not have been very serious, and when I tried the link the article no longer appeared on the Daily Telegraph site. I have exchanged it with the source you provided, but next time feel free to do this yourself. --Saddhiyama (talk) 08:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi, I'll try to do it, Thanks --Bullenwächter (talk) 19:11, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  14C - Dating 

message: The date of discover has been several times edited to the wrong date of May 8, 1950. Actually according to the archaeological literature Tollund Man has been found on Sathurday May 6, 1950 and the police were informed on Tuesday May 8, 1950 as it is also written on the site http://www.tollundman.dk/et-lig-dukker-op.asp. I guess the wrong date has been set because the content of web site has not been read carefully. --Bullenwächter (talk) 13:06, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I checked Christian Fischers recent book on the Tollund Man, and while he doesn't mention the exact date of discovery he does show a reproduction of a local contemporary newspaper article describing the find. The article itself is dated 8th of May but it says that the find had occurred "the preceding Saturday". So I agree that May 8 is not the correct date of discovery and May 6 is most likely the correct one. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:57, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of discovery 

message: Substituted at 08:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Requesting a Danish speaker to clarify if just the head was preserved, or if most of the vertebrae was preserved except for a few parts, as well as additional detail on reconstruction methods per this Danish source. Sideriver84 (talk) 20:33, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Preservation and reconstruction