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Named after a nearby Danish village, where its discoverers lived.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tollund Man
Today it means: A bog body found preserved in peat on the Jutland peninsula, Denmark, in 1950; the naturally mummified body of a man believed to have lived in the 5th century BCE during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the pre-Roman Iron Age. Full definition →