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This reminds me of the "mummy" named Fetmats, that worked in the famous copper mine in Falun, Sweden. One of the tunnels had collapsed, leaving him trapped inside 1677. He was found years later in 1719 and was brought to the surface. But due to the humidity and minerals in the mine his body was so well preserved that people thought he had died recently. When suddenly an old woman stepped forward claiming that it was her old husband Mats, that had gone missing 44 years earlier. It's a very fascinating story, i would love for you to tell it!
As a dane, this is one of the most interesting part of our history. I mean you can even see his pores, it feel like he could wake up anytime, you know, if you ignore the fact he is decapitated.
it makes me teary eyed when I realise how small and insignificant our existence is on a time scale so big, look at this tolund man, crazy to think that people even loved and looked so much like us today
There is no real difference between us and people who lived thousands of years ago. They had emotions and dreams and were just as human as the rest of us. The only difference is the toolbox got bigger.
Being from Silkeborg myself, I've visited the museum atleast half a dozen times (School trips and such). It is quite strange looking at it up close, you can clearly see the rope marks and facial features (as he covers).
It must be bizarre and amazing to think that this man may have once walked on the same ground that you did! (well i guess not exactly the same, I know things change a lot in 2000 years, but still!!)
I knew a lot about Tollund Man already, but I STILL had no idea about how they had to go on a scientific scavenger hunt for his bones and body and then re-assemble him like the world's most forbidden jigsaw puzzle.
Well something to do with underground currents bog man wasn’t buried there. Better yet he was tied to something so most of him stayed and the rest of the body was washed away.
i dont know whats with the illiterates in the replies who are scared of long sentences but yeah, i dont know why they scattered him to begin with, a terrible idea even if in the name of science LOL
The preservation of his face is remarkable! It’s almost as if he could open his eyes and mouth and speak. Unbelievable. Thank you, Simon, for the upload.
When I was a kid, my dad was taking night school classes to finish his degree in history, so he had collected a sizeable library of books on history, and I enjoyed skimming through them for all the cool pictures of ancient ruins and archeological finds. I will never forget the spine-tingling, hair-raising feeling I got the first time I came across pictures of the bog bodies.
Very interesting! He really does appear to be sleeping. Regular (Egyptian) mummies have filled me with atavistic horror since I was a child, but this man’s face inspires fascination and a touch of sadness.
I work at Silkeborg Museum where he lies (in his own room) and my general experience is that when people walk into the room, they don't say a word and when some do others shush them. Sometimes when there are few guests, I just sit there with him until the lights turn off. And it's oddly peaceful.
ME TOO! I was OBSESSED with ancient Egypt and mummies of all kinds as a kid. So my mom got me this book on bog mummies and it had a full color 2 page spread of a very detailed picture of him. It gave me nightmares for weeks xD even tho none of the other mummies did! I wasn't afraid of the other mummies at all.
I knew I was a little weird because I remember reading around 8-9 and I was just so fascinated and still have the same interests today in macabre things lol
We studied Tollund Man back in 1980 aged 12. It was quite an introduction to history. It worked though. I fell in love with history and archaeology because of the Tollund Man.
I always love visiting the bog bodies on display in the National Museum of Ireland. I've yet to get the chance to see this one but he's on the bucket list to see
Dude you post videos consistently with different channels, its honestly impressive, just make sure you rest once in a while, I don't want you to get exhausted, love ur teams content
@@gshaindrich That is on them. Contrary to societal belief, nobody should believe everything read to them on the news/internet. Trust but verify. I enjoy Simon for the entertainment his channels provide, and I don't assign UA-cam personalities authority their credentials can't back up. It's entertainment. Informative entertainment, to be sure, but entertainment nonetheless. And I can appreciate the value of it.
Oh what a victorious feeling! Factboi finally swung by my country in his blazin' train of thoughts!!!1 Bonusfact: Irish poet and nobel laureate Seamus Heaney wrote two poems about danish bog bodies. Here's a few lines from "The Grauballe Man": "As if he had been poured in tar, he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep the black river of himself." I always felt a strong connection to these last lines in his poem "The Tollund Man": "Out here in Jutland In the old man-killing parishes I will feel lost, Unhappy and at home." BLEAAAZE ON FACTBOI!!1 And give ETA. a kiss from me
I’ve been fascinated by bog bodies since I learned about them as a kid, thanks for the video! I’d be up for more videos on anyone who has ever been mummified 😃
Thanks Simon. I'm writing you from Denmark and I think we traveled to se Tollundmanden every year, up to the 10. grade. The school made a day of it and as long as wr didn't have to sit and slave in a dusty classroom it was more than okay. Now, 60 years later, it was good to be reminded about the old guy. We were sure that if wr could just pass the glassbarriers and touch his face, he would wake up. Again Thanks. The old-timer.
I'm from Holstein northern Germany wich is about 150km away from Silkeborg, and work parttime as an anziquities reseller, I therefore included male bog body intestenance to my 'watch out for' list.
It is really interesting to watch this video as it is very close to my heart. I read about the Tollund man when I was around 6 years old and even though back then I hadn't the faintest about where it is located exactly, it started my interest in Nordic/Celtic history, language, and culture.
It's almost too bad humans discovered him, he would have made a wonderful fossil specimen in a couple million years. At the same time, it's awesome they found him, and kept him in such good shape. This was very cool to watch!
I'm sure there are other specimens to be discovered I'm millions of years. Hell, maybe someone today could fall somewhere accidentally and be preserved for millions of years
@@qpSubZeroqp I agree. There are a lot of well preserved people on the bottom of Lake Superior too. If it's a lake for enough time to bury them in even just a thin layer of sediment, barring another glaciation in the next million years, that will probably produce some excellent specimens too. But yeah, there are probably many specimens yet to be (if ever) discovered in the bogs too. This is just a really nice one, would have made a really nice fossil. Like those trilobites from Morocco.
Bogs in general are pretty neat places if one has never been in one. We have them here in the US but ours don't have anywhere near the number of bodies in them as the ones in Europe do appearently. It's pretty neat that the natural acids and low oxygen environment from the bog and preserve a human corpse so well for thousands of years.
Well this was a rather unexpected Biographics video... Which is why I got so excited when I got the notification!! (Bog bodies are fascinating to me because of how much we can tell from their fantastic preservation.)
Great info and leaves us all with the big question.. who has the body parts from the bodies of our ancestors.. still today does anyone know what they do with them.. can they effect us in any way and what really happens to ours when we’re gone? Organs and souls.. trusted to the musical Hoo?
If memory serves, my dad- an outstanding engineer- worked on the first MRI in the eighties. I believe they put Peat Bog in the scanner. I remember a significant hubbub about him at his workplace
I love watching your series, and not just biographics. Geographics, mega projects, them all. I do have a suggestion/request for a future episode of biographics. Please do an episode on Rod Serling, writer, presenter of "The Twilight Zone". Would love to hear your guys take on him.
@@rowanbraddock I’ve got most of my fathers knee preserved in formaldehyde. He kept what the surgeon took out in a replacement and I inherited the jar when he died.
Simon I'm absolutely hooked on geo and bio as well as the other channels the Simon clones do as well blaze is cool 😎 keep up the content I hope you never run out of topics.
I would have thought that his burial after the execution was carried out by family members who loved him. It doesn’t have to be as dramatic as a human sacrifice. He committed a crime, was sentenced to be hung, and then his grieving loved ones buried him.
The bog body was actually just in the danish news after a new technology has made it possible to see down to the every little gram of ingredients what his last meal was. It was a kind of porridge with fish
These sorts of videos always make me really somber, but at the same time make me feel the most human and humble. Poor little humans, being able to conceive of so much more than their existence allows for, and therefore being stuck in a state of endless longing and unfulfillable desire. We struggle so much to rise beyond our limitations, but in the end we all return to the bog
There is something incredibly unsettling, yet very amusing about this man’s discovery. It’s hard to imagine the circumstances that he suffered from but I am sure he went through a lot, but ended up losing his life not knowing that he would be discovered thousands of years later to help humanity discover so much. This is incredibly amusing
I’ve actually been to Silkeborg and seen him. It was pretty amazing. We have a very famous bog body here in Sweden too, The Bocksten Man, though, unfortunately, he has deteriorated quite a bit since he was discovered.
Surprised this hasn't yet become an episode of Iconic Corpse on the Ask A Mortician channel. But I guess Caitlin has been... ya know... just a bit busy of late with being a funeral director during a global pandemic in L.A...
Always find bog bodies deeply fascinating for the small glimpse into human life millennia ago that they give us, often providing more questions than answers.
As a Dane, i have to compliment your pronounciation of my hometown of Silkeborg, it was spot on :D Furthermore, i find it funny how many bog bodies are found in Denmark
The new radiocarbon dating (from 2017) of the Tollund Man shows that he DIED between 405 and 380 BC (the interval is 95,4 % certain). That is to say he is contemporary with Socrates who emptied the cup of poisonous hemlock in Athens in 399 BC.
God's definitely about Visigothic Germanic peoples, online for days now, and I just realized that also through a National Geographic History Magazine that I recently purchased. "Raising The Dead: Bog Bodies of Northern Europe". Not only northern Germany, but also Danes and Swedes
Nice!!! I was waiting for this one, I love the Ötzi one. Will be there “fashionista music” too? You guys hook me up with that, never stop watching Biographics since then. Simon, you are the man 🙏
One plausible theory when it comes to which god he was sacrificed to is again based upon Tacitus. In 'Germania' he writes about a fertility goddess called Nerthus, very likely either the sister of the god Njord briefly mentioned in Norse myths or an earlier female version of him. Tacitus describes a festival of peace where the goddess travels among the Germanic tribes in a cart. This cart, according to Tacitus, was kept in a secret location only known to the priests. Zealand in Denmark has been pointed to as a candidate for where it may have been located. When the goddess' festival was over, they took the wagon back to the island to have it washed in a lake by slaves, who were then ritualistically drowned. As a Norwegian, I am eternally fascinated by the pagan past and heritage of Northern Europe. We know so little about it, but is such a huge part of our historical roots, and there are scattered cultural remains of who these people were and how they lived almost everywhere in Scandinavia, some of them stretching back to the Bronze Age.
If you want to fulfill all your bogtastic bog fantasies go to Finland, bogs everywhere. I am not a great fan of them as they ring the edges of or completely cover most small forest ponds/lakes of which we have millions, but they make it a much less enjoyable thing to try to go for a swim in the ponds. Sweden also has quite a lot of bogs too. But it seems mostly a northern thing, Russia has a lot as well from what I hear.
@@noth606 Interesting. It was way back in the beginnings of the 90s when I thought they only existed in Ireland and Scotland. They are fascinating time capsules, and not just from the things that died in them, studying them has taught scientists so much about the history of the world. Bogs and the tar pits we have here in the western part of the US are endlessly fascinating to me.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The discovery 4:10 - Chapter 2 - From bog to lab 6:50 - Mid roll ads 8:10 - Chapter 3 - Iron age fashion 10:00 - Chapter 4 - The anatomy of the tollund man 15:35 - Chapter 5 - The tollund man on display
14:02 now I know why when you play as norse character in CK2 early start dates a picture of a tree with multiple dead bodies hanging around would sometimes popped out, especially when you sacrifices them for Odin.
omg its so weird hearing about this and silkeborg! my great grandpa was working in the bog where he was found! they live right next to it and I live in silkeborg. such a great part of our history. it feels weird seeing him because it just looks like he's sleeping. his little red beard is still so vibrant
Who else thinks that Simon is standard lumberjack I mean look at that beard, it's epic. I can just imagine Simon cutting up firewood in Northern Alaska on a blustery day.
Now... just imagine explaining all this to the tollund man while he was still alive. That various parts of his body would travel the world only to be (mostly) reunited.. that his body would be a source of fascination, mostly still intact almosy 2.5k years later. That hundreds of thousands of people would be so fascinated with him in particular that moving pictures would be created for them to watch on tiny magic boxes they carried in their pockets. 😅 poor fellow would've got his head done in!
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Never thought there was such a thing as “swamp mummies”...yeesh. Speaking of raising the dead(in a way), could you please do a vid on Hugh Glass: The Revenant? Thanks, and keep up the amazing work!
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I would but you've blocked me from commenting.
This reminds me of the "mummy" named Fetmats, that worked in the famous copper mine in Falun, Sweden. One of the tunnels had collapsed, leaving him trapped inside 1677. He was found years later in 1719 and was brought to the surface. But due to the humidity and minerals in the mine his body was so well preserved that people thought he had died recently. When suddenly an old woman stepped forward claiming that it was her old husband Mats, that had gone missing 44 years earlier.
It's a very fascinating story, i would love for you to tell it!
have you ever considered doing a biographic video on moss hill of the Oceanos his storys up there with Titanic in ships sinking.
Kahlil gibran please.. The prophet.
Do a biographic on prince Phillip
As a dane, this is one of the most interesting part of our history. I mean you can even see his pores, it feel like he could wake up anytime, you know, if you ignore the fact he is decapitated.
are you a great dane?
Viking banter at its best
Yes, ignore that 😵🙃
Killing and raping my ancestors wasn’t very interesting i agree
@@fusixnrwicnwiejciwj8925 It’s based AF
it makes me teary eyed when I realise how small and insignificant our existence is on a time scale so big, look at this tolund man, crazy to think that people even loved and looked so much like us today
There is no real difference between us and people who lived thousands of years ago.
They had emotions and dreams and were just as human as the rest of us. The only difference is the toolbox got bigger.
We also have in denmark the “grauballe man” he was found like 50 km from the tollund man, he is also really well preserved
Hehe.. gravballe
Hehee "gravballe" 😆 Danish is a hilarious language. To a swedish reader it is "graveballs/tombtesticles/scrotum of the crypt"
@@Hotchpotchsoup well the balle is the shaft so the translation would be gravecock.
@@Dawe360 No, balle is the buttocks ... (or rather singular)
TOMBASS
Some achieve immortality through their legacy... while others achieve it by dying in a bog and becoming mummified. 😅
I think I fall somewhere in between all that. Closest to the whole died in a bog legacy lol
Just because you aren’t the main character of the story you’re in, it doesn’t mean your meat bag isn’t
Its not really a legacy if no one remembers who you are or even what you did
@@lespectator4962 it's still a legacy even if they don't know who you are they still remember you
@@baconbliss4796 How can they remember you if they don't know who you are? Lol
I saw one of these in a museum and it’s hair was so well preserved it reminded me of Conan the talk show host guy
"hey conan, you look like a 2000 year old bog-body, lol!"
Good thing you clarified I was gonna ask "the barbarian"?
Why did that make me cry laughing
Given that the only other famous Conan is Conan "The Barbarian" I'd like to think you meant that as a title. Conan "The Talk Show Host Guy"
I almost forgot his name also tbh. It's Conan O'Brien.
He looks INCREDIBLE. Every time I see photos of him I’m amazed. It’s hard to fathom how old he is. The detail is astounding
We’ve a saying here in Ireland :
You can take the man of the bog, but you can’t take the bog out of the man.
Big up Offaly lads
Some man to foot turf
Woo woo the ratlin bog the bog down in the valleyo
Shrek?
Ain't that the truth
Being from Silkeborg myself, I've visited the museum atleast half a dozen times (School trips and such).
It is quite strange looking at it up close, you can clearly see the rope marks and facial features (as he covers).
It must be bizarre and amazing to think that this man may have once walked on the same ground that you did! (well i guess not exactly the same, I know things change a lot in 2000 years, but still!!)
I knew a lot about Tollund Man already, but I STILL had no idea about how they had to go on a scientific scavenger hunt for his bones and body and then re-assemble him like the world's most forbidden jigsaw puzzle.
Well something to do with underground currents bog man wasn’t buried there. Better yet he was tied to something so most of him stayed and the rest of the body was washed away.
Slow down on you narrative your talking to fast
@@wilfredhawkes3254 just read slower 4head
I can't listen anymore. Who gave this guy the microphone!?
i dont know whats with the illiterates in the replies who are scared of long sentences but yeah, i dont know why they scattered him to begin with, a terrible idea even if in the name of science LOL
The preservation of his face is remarkable! It’s almost as if he could open his eyes and mouth and speak. Unbelievable. Thank you, Simon, for the upload.
In a way, he does speak.
When I was a kid, my dad was taking night school classes to finish his degree in history, so he had collected a sizeable library of books on history, and I enjoyed skimming through them for all the cool pictures of ancient ruins and archeological finds. I will never forget the spine-tingling, hair-raising feeling I got the first time I came across pictures of the bog bodies.
Very interesting! He really does appear to be sleeping. Regular (Egyptian) mummies have filled me with atavistic horror since I was a child, but this man’s face inspires fascination and a touch of sadness.
I almost feel as if I could reach out and touch him, and he would wake up!
I work at Silkeborg Museum where he lies (in his own room) and my general experience is that when people walk into the room, they don't say a word and when some do others shush them. Sometimes when there are few guests, I just sit there with him until the lights turn off. And it's oddly peaceful.
First saw that image when I was around 7 it always haunted me. Now years later it's cool to learn about its backstory.
I was impressed by the texture of the skin, it was pretty eerie as a kid, but had a bit of familiarity that the other pictures of mummies didn’t.
*its
ME TOO! I was OBSESSED with ancient Egypt and mummies of all kinds as a kid. So my mom got me this book on bog mummies and it had a full color 2 page spread of a very detailed picture of him. It gave me nightmares for weeks xD even tho none of the other mummies did! I wasn't afraid of the other mummies at all.
I knew I was a little weird because I remember reading around 8-9 and I was just so fascinated and still have the same interests today in macabre things lol
We studied Tollund Man back in 1980 aged 12. It was quite an introduction to history. It worked though. I fell in love with history and archaeology because of the Tollund Man.
We did the same aged 12 in 2010
I’m doing the same in 2024 aged 12
I always love visiting the bog bodies on display in the National Museum of Ireland. I've yet to get the chance to see this one but he's on the bucket list to see
Dude you post videos consistently with different channels, its honestly impressive, just make sure you rest once in a while, I don't want you to get exhausted, love ur teams content
which other channels?
@@ChescoYT Go to the Biographics channel main page and click on the channels tab, there you'll see the associated channels. ;)
Man, this channel is amazing. Simon, your delivery is always impeccable, and these stories are insanely interesting and informative. Thank you!!!
"this channel is amazing" - if you completely ignore all the factual errors they make...
@@gshaindrich I usually do
@@jacksonlynch1731 if you can, good for you, seriously... but others are not so fortunate and believe everything Simon reads out loud
@@gshaindrich That is on them. Contrary to societal belief, nobody should believe everything read to them on the news/internet. Trust but verify. I enjoy Simon for the entertainment his channels provide, and I don't assign UA-cam personalities authority their credentials can't back up. It's entertainment. Informative entertainment, to be sure, but entertainment nonetheless. And I can appreciate the value of it.
He talks so fast its almost like listening to an auctioneer. His delivery ruins the program.
Can we do a biographics on my hopes and dreams? They went extinct years ago.
You ain't alone
I think they all go to the same place once they die. Same place single socks go when the dryer eats them.
Probably not since theren't any traces of it to begin with
Went dark real quick
Caitlin: So, burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis or natural?
Me: Bog.
Have they done any DNA tests to see if he has any descendants? That would be so cool.
Oh what a victorious feeling! Factboi finally swung by my country in his blazin' train of thoughts!!!1
Bonusfact: Irish poet and nobel laureate Seamus Heaney wrote two poems about danish bog bodies. Here's a few lines from "The Grauballe Man":
"As if he had been poured
in tar, he lies
on a pillow of turf
and seems to weep
the black river of himself."
I always felt a strong connection to these last lines in his poem "The Tollund Man":
"Out here in Jutland
In the old man-killing parishes
I will feel lost,
Unhappy and at home."
BLEAAAZE ON FACTBOI!!1
And give ETA. a kiss from me
This reminds me of when Groundskeeper Willie said his own father was thrown in the bog.
I’ve been fascinated by bog bodies since I learned about them as a kid, thanks for the video!
I’d be up for more videos on anyone who has ever been mummified 😃
Thanks Simon. I'm writing you from Denmark and I think we traveled to se Tollundmanden every year, up to the 10. grade. The school made a day of it and as long as wr didn't have to sit and slave in a dusty classroom it was more than okay. Now, 60 years later, it was good to be reminded about the old guy. We were sure that if wr could just pass the glassbarriers and touch his face, he would wake up. Again Thanks. The old-timer.
I'm from Holstein northern Germany wich is about 150km away from Silkeborg, and work parttime as an anziquities reseller, I therefore included male bog body intestenance to my 'watch out for' list.
It is really interesting to watch this video as it is very close to my heart. I read about the Tollund man when I was around 6 years old and even though back then I hadn't the faintest about where it is located exactly, it started my interest in Nordic/Celtic history, language, and culture.
It's almost too bad humans discovered him, he would have made a wonderful fossil specimen in a couple million years.
At the same time, it's awesome they found him, and kept him in such good shape. This was very cool to watch!
I'm sure there are other specimens to be discovered I'm millions of years. Hell, maybe someone today could fall somewhere accidentally and be preserved for millions of years
@@qpSubZeroqp I agree. There are a lot of well preserved people on the bottom of Lake Superior too. If it's a lake for enough time to bury them in even just a thin layer of sediment, barring another glaciation in the next million years, that will probably produce some excellent specimens too. But yeah, there are probably many specimens yet to be (if ever) discovered in the bogs too. This is just a really nice one, would have made a really nice fossil. Like those trilobites from Morocco.
@@thirstfast1025 exactly
@@qpSubZeroqp maybe that someone could be one of us :o
By that time we will have the technology to look into the past. They can watch caesar scribble in his notebook lol
Bogs in general are pretty neat places if one has never been in one. We have them here in the US but ours don't have anywhere near the number of bodies in them as the ones in Europe do appearently.
It's pretty neat that the natural acids and low oxygen environment from the bog and preserve a human corpse so well for thousands of years.
I loved learning about the bronze and iron age back in primary school, this was one of my favourite stories.
Well this was a rather unexpected Biographics video... Which is why I got so excited when I got the notification!! (Bog bodies are fascinating to me because of how much we can tell from their fantastic preservation.)
Great info and leaves us all with the big question.. who has the body parts from the bodies of our ancestors.. still today does anyone know what they do with them.. can they effect us in any way and what really happens to ours when we’re gone? Organs and souls.. trusted to the musical Hoo?
If memory serves, my dad- an outstanding engineer- worked on the first MRI in the eighties. I believe they put Peat Bog in the scanner. I remember a significant hubbub about him at his workplace
That's so cool!
Great video, thank you!
I love watching your series, and not just biographics. Geographics, mega projects, them all.
I do have a suggestion/request for a future episode of biographics. Please do an episode on Rod Serling, writer, presenter of "The Twilight Zone". Would love to hear your guys take on him.
Thank you for all the hard work and the eclectic mix of outstanding videos 👍
Great video and great narration.
My dad also brought random body parts in jars to the dinner table. We were never allowed to ask about it though...
Any mummified bog organs?
My aunt put a preserved heart on the table at dinner when I was like 8 yo and refused to say where it came from
@@rowanbraddock tf
@@Thejghostodst she worked at a hospital so it could have been a real human heart or she could have put a fake in a jar cause she was like that
@@rowanbraddock
I’ve got most of my fathers knee preserved in formaldehyde. He kept what the surgeon took out in a replacement and I inherited the jar when he died.
Absolutely awesome you have made a video about Danish history (I’m from Denmark ;) ) more of that, please 😁
Simon I'm absolutely hooked on geo and bio as well as the other channels the Simon clones do as well blaze is cool 😎 keep up the content I hope you never run out of topics.
I would have thought that his burial after the execution was carried out by family members who loved him. It doesn’t have to be as dramatic as a human sacrifice. He committed a crime, was sentenced to be hung, and then his grieving loved ones buried him.
In a bog?
🤔🤨🫤
Really good job, Simon! Thanks🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
I was actually wondering what food was in her stomach. Thanks Simon's writer.
Yes! Thank you
I hope this isn't sarcasm, because I feel the same way.
@@danielawesome36 I am a pretty sarcastic person but I was actually curious.
The bog body was actually just in the danish news after a new technology has made it possible to see down to the every little gram of ingredients what his last meal was. It was a kind of porridge with fish
@@anders9646 yuck
These sorts of videos always make me really somber, but at the same time make me feel the most human and humble. Poor little humans, being able to conceive of so much more than their existence allows for, and therefore being stuck in a state of endless longing and unfulfillable desire. We struggle so much to rise beyond our limitations, but in the end we all return to the bog
That was pretty dope. I really enjoyed this installment .
Fascinating as always Simon!
When will you do a video on the florida bog bodies?
You’re such a great orator! Thanks
Also this sounds weird but his feet are also so well preserved... wish they'd preserved those the same way as well because its genuinely fascinating
Thanks
great content Simon!
The last time I was this early, Tollund Man still had hands.
There is something incredibly unsettling, yet very amusing about this man’s discovery. It’s hard to imagine the circumstances that he suffered from but I am sure he went through a lot, but ended up losing his life not knowing that he would be discovered thousands of years later to help humanity discover so much. This is incredibly amusing
Simon the story-teller. You simply make the most bizarre stories hold one spell-bound till the end....
Thank you - as always
I’ve actually been to Silkeborg and seen him. It was pretty amazing. We have a very famous bog body here in Sweden too, The Bocksten Man, though, unfortunately, he has deteriorated quite a bit since he was discovered.
you mmean bilbo baggins?
Good video 👍
I've been following the progress of bog bodies and their study for around 30 years.
I’ve always been fascinated with learning more about the Bog Bodies ever since I seen a special on UA-cam Amazing . 👍👍
Surprised this hasn't yet become an episode of Iconic Corpse on the Ask A Mortician channel. But I guess Caitlin has been... ya know... just a bit busy of late with being a funeral director during a global pandemic in L.A...
Why not try messaging her to suggest it?
Lol death rates have not increased since the pandemic started. It has a 1% fatality rate across all ages....
@@Around_blax_dont_relax 🙄Because a deadly virus that affects the lungs and your sense of smell and taste is just a “flu” right?
She didn't dedicate a whole episode but she mentioned it in passing. I think it was in an episode about mummification or American mummies.
@@triggeredcat120 yes.
I think he looks Scandanavian even in death, don't you? Amazing.
My history teacher made us watch this, thanks.
Always find bog bodies deeply fascinating for the small glimpse into human life millennia ago that they give us, often providing more questions than answers.
The Tollund man does not look hanged. His face looks too peaceful, like he is sleeping, and not the victim of a violent death.
Please do a video on la donchella the Inca maiden sacrificed in the 1400s that was found on the peak of a mountain
Dx
Finally some danish content, next episode shall be about a danish monark.
This was a really good video thank you!
As a Dane, i have to compliment your pronounciation of my hometown of Silkeborg, it was spot on :D
Furthermore, i find it funny how many bog bodies are found in Denmark
4:11 - Proof that Rob Bottin researched bog bodies before did the effects work on The Thing (1982.)
The new radiocarbon dating (from 2017) of the Tollund Man shows that he DIED between 405 and 380 BC (the interval is 95,4 % certain). That is to say he is contemporary with Socrates who emptied the cup of poisonous hemlock in Athens in 399 BC.
Fascinating video. Hopefully, technology will advance even further so we can know what really happened to the Tollund man.
God's definitely about Visigothic Germanic peoples, online for days now, and I just realized that also through a National Geographic History Magazine that I recently purchased. "Raising The Dead: Bog Bodies of Northern Europe". Not only northern Germany, but also Danes and Swedes
Great work! If you play this at the .75 speed setting - it’s not quite such an onslaught. Unbelievable story!
Nice!!! I was waiting for this one, I love the Ötzi one. Will be there “fashionista music” too? You guys hook me up with that, never stop watching Biographics since then. Simon, you are the man 🙏
I dont know why but I love hearing about the bog bodies it's so fascinating.
he died 300 years before julius ceasar was born
This is literally an essay I did 2 yrs ago but in video form 😂
One plausible theory when it comes to which god he was sacrificed to is again based upon Tacitus. In 'Germania' he writes about a fertility goddess called Nerthus, very likely either the sister of the god Njord briefly mentioned in Norse myths or an earlier female version of him. Tacitus describes a festival of peace where the goddess travels among the Germanic tribes in a cart. This cart, according to Tacitus, was kept in a secret location only known to the priests. Zealand in Denmark has been pointed to as a candidate for where it may have been located. When the goddess' festival was over, they took the wagon back to the island to have it washed in a lake by slaves, who were then ritualistically drowned.
As a Norwegian, I am eternally fascinated by the pagan past and heritage of Northern Europe. We know so little about it, but is such a huge part of our historical roots, and there are scattered cultural remains of who these people were and how they lived almost everywhere in Scandinavia, some of them stretching back to the Bronze Age.
For years I thought bogs only existed in Scotland and Ireland. It made sense in my pre pubescent mind.
Same but we do have alot of bogs
If you want to fulfill all your bogtastic bog fantasies go to Finland, bogs everywhere. I am not a great fan of them as they ring the edges of or completely cover most small forest ponds/lakes of which we have millions, but they make it a much less enjoyable thing to try to go for a swim in the ponds. Sweden also has quite a lot of bogs too. But it seems mostly a northern thing, Russia has a lot as well from what I hear.
@@noth606 I will steal all of the nodric country bogs so we can be the bog kings
@@noth606 Interesting. It was way back in the beginnings of the 90s when I thought they only existed in Ireland and Scotland. They are fascinating time capsules, and not just from the things that died in them, studying them has taught scientists so much about the history of the world. Bogs and the tar pits we have here in the western part of the US are endlessly fascinating to me.
We've got some here in the states. Not surprising since we have nearly every type of biome you could ask for.
Great video Simon!
I watched it on my 4K tv and WOW I can see every pore and every beard hair.
Nice camera lol
I have always been wondering how a man being violently killed can show such a peaceful face.
17:30 Sounds like suppertime with my demented grandparents when I was a kid.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The discovery
4:10 - Chapter 2 - From bog to lab
6:50 - Mid roll ads
8:10 - Chapter 3 - Iron age fashion
10:00 - Chapter 4 - The anatomy of the tollund man
15:35 - Chapter 5 - The tollund man on display
Once Callum is found, he will then become the world's most famous body.
No Danny would be. Followed by Sam and Callum.
What’s a callum?
@@Baelor-Breakspear He is the writer for The Casual Criminalist which is another Simon channel, and is also a podcast.
@@Baelor-Breakspear check out The Casual Criminalist also available on UA-cam
14:02 now I know why when you play as norse character in CK2 early start dates a picture of a tree with multiple dead bodies hanging around would sometimes popped out, especially when you sacrifices them for Odin.
omg its so weird hearing about this and silkeborg! my great grandpa was working in the bog where he was found! they live right next to it and I live in silkeborg. such a great part of our history. it feels weird seeing him because it just looks like he's sleeping. his little red beard is still so vibrant
Who else thinks that Simon is standard lumberjack I mean look at that beard, it's epic. I can just imagine Simon cutting up firewood in Northern Alaska on a blustery day.
That, good sir, is the beard of knowledge.
He wouldnt be able to lift the axe lol
BAN HIM!!!
He’s appropriating Lumberjack culture
Im doing this topic for a school project :D
Really helped thanks
Making bog men interesting, well played.
You rock as usual!
I would like to request a video on Jane Leeds from New Jersey, she is the mother of the Jersey Devil. Might be cool.
He looks like The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz! 😂
I hope I don’t die in a bog so my body doesn’t end up in a museum lol
Be cool to be laid to rest in a bog so people could visit you and see you.
Now... just imagine explaining all this to the tollund man while he was still alive. That various parts of his body would travel the world only to be (mostly) reunited.. that his body would be a source of fascination, mostly still intact almosy 2.5k years later. That hundreds of thousands of people would be so fascinated with him in particular that moving pictures would be created for them to watch on tiny magic boxes they carried in their pockets. 😅 poor fellow would've got his head done in!
How interesting to find a body that old. Thank you so much.
Fascinating topic
Nice vid. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
Is the sound recorded very low on this vid? My headset and phone is at full volume and still seems low.
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Some interesting background music....just waiting for the magic crystals sales pitch...
Never thought there was such a thing as “swamp mummies”...yeesh. Speaking of raising the dead(in a way), could you please do a vid on Hugh Glass: The Revenant? Thanks, and keep up the amazing work!
Not swamps, bogs. Bogs are different
i have to watch a video of the tollund man for history 😭😭