Elling Woman

== English == === Etymology === After 1978 (see note below). === Proper noun === Elling Woman (archaeology) 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. ==== Usage notes ==== The body was not established to be female until it was reexamined via radiography in 1978; the examination also confirmed the original estimate of her age at death as 25 years. In his 1965 book Mosefolket (translated into English and published in 1969 as The Bog People), Danish archaeologist P. V. Glob mistakenly described the body as that of a man. In 1950, the Tollund Man was discovered just 60 metres from the site of the Elling Woman's discovery. Both are believed to have been hanged in ritual sacrifice. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Tollund Man