The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies: Why do so many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?
Who will say ‘corpse’ to his vivid cast? Who will say ‘body’ to his opaque repose? —Seamus Heaney, “Grauballe Man” (1975)
One Saturday in the spring of 1950, brothers Viggo and Emil Højgaard from the small village of Tollund, in Denmark, were cutti