[tied] Re: Burial customs in the countries around Denmark

--- In cybalist@..., "Joseph S Crary" <pva@...> wrote:

>
>
> I remember reading an account that mentions a trip taken by a

Briton

> or Cymbr Christian priest in England to the territory occupied by
> Danes. I believe it was in Northumberia near York. The story tells

of

> the priest comming on a bizarre and gastly sight while passing a
> swamp and seeing men, horses, cattle, and wild animals of different
> types, all in various stages of decomposition. All had been hung as
> offerings by their necks, from the great limbs of a huge and

ancient

> tree.
>
> Could some of these bog people have been hung tree offering that

had

> quickly fell with their noose, and slipped beneath the cold waters?
>
>
> Joseph S Crary

Anything is possible, but how many big trees overhanging a bog do you
see?
BTW There is a novel interpretation in the papers here today of the
numerous gold finds (bracteats especially) here from Germanic Iron
Age: They were sacrifices to appease the gods during the summer that
disappeared 535 CE, when according to Syrian and Chines chroniclers
the sun turned blue in summer, and didn't cast shadows. And these
sacrifices included animals and humans.

Torsten