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Is that the Way it was?
Many people have tried to imagine what life was like at the time of the Tollund Man, how he lived and how he died. A museum curator's story about the Tollund ManMuseum curator Christian Fischer from Silkeborg Museum has used all the facts we have about the Tollund Man to write a short story about how he thinks the Tollund Man's life ended.
A Nobel Prize winner's poem about the Tollund ManThe Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney wrote his very famous poem "The Tollund Man" in the guest book of Silkeborg Museum in 1973. The first lines of the poem:
Some day I will go to Aarhus *
* Heaney purposely writes that he will go to Aarhus to see the Tollund Man even though he knows that he is on display in Silkeborg. But in Heaney's opinion "Aarhus" goes better with the metrical feet. You can read the poem in both Danish and English. |
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