Surprised and terrified was exactly how the Hoigaard brothers felt when they found now know the most famous bog body in May 1950 when they were digging for peat near the village of Tollund in Aarhus, Denmark.
The Tollund man had a skin cap, a smooth hide belt and a rope around his neck. His heart and other organs were healthy and his wisdom teeth had grown, which means he was about 20 years old when he died. The consensus is that the Tollund man was hung up by the German tribes as a sacrifice to worship the Goddess of Spring but he had no scars of damages to his neck so it not likely that he was hung.
In my opinion, I think the Tollund man was a slave and was going to be sacrificed. When they were about to hang him up, he ran away then accidently fell into a bog and drowned. This explains why he had the rope around his neck with no scars or any damages, as well as other evidence that give the reason he might have been hung up, for instance, how healthy and young he was when he died.
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