Editing Tollund Man (section)

==Cause of death==

The reason for Tollund Man's death has not been definitively determined.<ref name="GREEN">{{cite journal | url=https://eds.p.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=b60292f4-35f5-4987-8f44-515bea0a53c0%40redis | title=Humans as Ritual Victims in the Later Prehistory of Western Europe | first=Miranda | last=Green | journal=Oxford Journal of Archaeology | year=1998 | volume=17 | issue=2 | pp=162-189}}</ref> Some scholars believe the man was a ritual sacrifice because of the special treatment of the body: the arranged position of his body, the eyes and mouth being closed and the special meal that had been ingested.<ref name="GREEN"/><ref name=kings>Hart, Edward, dir. [https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2014/01/28/nova-ghosts-murdered-kings Ghosts of Murdered Kings]. NOVA. Prod. Edward Hart and Dan McCabe, PBS, 29 January 2014</ref> However, other scholars believe that his death may have been an execution,<ref name="GREEN"/> in part because Germanic tribes buried traitors under piles of sticks.<ref>[https://www.museumsilkeborg.dk/why-did-tollund-man-have-to-die Why did Tollund Man have to die?], [https://www.museumsilkeborg.dk/ Museum Silkeborg]</ref>