![]() ![]() Glob's 'The Bog People,' that deals with preserved Iron Age bodies of men and women that had been ritually killed. Photographed, analyzed, her well-known remains now rest in the Archäologisches Landesmuseum in Schleswig, vivid testimony that that bog people of northern Europe enforced their moral code with capital punishment.ĭanish archaeologist Peter Vilhelm Glob published a book in 1965 about the teenager, by then named the Windeby girl. Birch branches and a large stone covered the girl when alive, weighing her down so that she drowned in the bog. In 1952 the owners of a little bog near Windeby, in the vicinity of Schleswig, Germany, discovered the corpse of a 2,000-year-old girl, aged 14 at her death, as they cut up the peat for sale. His poems also tend to mirror social and cultural divisions in contemporary Northern Ireland. Heaney's poetry is concerned primarily with historical themes of Ireland. ![]()
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