I'm Getting Bogged Down in this Book
Hundreds of Iron Age bodies have been found in peat bogs throughout Northern Europe over the last 250 years or so. Many are so well preserved (as Tollund Man on the cover) that the police are usually called when they are found; the peat cutters take them for murder victims or "lost" people from the village.The really creepy part is that Professor Glob (yes, that's his name -- see the cover) tells us that all the available evidence suggests that most of these people were sacrificed in pre-Christian fertility cult "spring weddings" of one variety or another. Left unclear is whether or not the victims were willing participants in these ceremonies or not.
Ouch.
Goes well with:
posted by Under The Mountain | 7:19 PM
1 Comments:
I am not much a scotch drinker, I think more because of opportunity than because of preferance. But you make a poignant thought about what really makes the peat moss special in some single malts.??
"scotch, neat or on the rocks" really takes on a whole new meaning.
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