Etymology

Elling Woman

Today it means: A bog body found preserved in peat on the Jutland peninsula, Denmark, in 1938; the naturally mummified body of a woman believed to have died approximately 280 BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the pre-Roman Iron Age. Full definition →

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After 1978 (see note below).

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