Tollund Man: The 2,400-Year-Old Bog Body That Still Fascinates the World

I have always been a little uneasy about human bodies in museums, regardless of their age. It isn’t a disquiet based on religion, but around the issue of permission. I’m opting for cremation when my last page turns, and that will avoid me becoming the Tollund Man of the year 4000 no matter what the cause of my demise (hopefully). I wouldn’t want people gawping at my human remains – although I can think of any number of people who would probably relish the thought of people looking at them thousands of years in the future. Not my kind of immortality, I’m afraid! We will obviously never know what Tollund Man or Grauballe Man, two of Denmark's most famous 'bog bodies,' preserved for over 2,000 years in peat bogs might think of the ultimate fate of their bodies. It’s unlikely that they would even understand the concept of a museum, let alone their place in it. And besides, besides, besides… On to the video. Ole Nielsen of the Silkeborg Museum walks us through the discovery of Tollund Man,…