Editing Tollund Man (section)

==In popular culture==
[[Nobel Prize]]-winning Irish poet [[Seamus Heaney]] wrote a series of poems inspired by [[P. V. Glob]]'s study of the mummified Iron Age bodies found in [[Jutland]]'s peat bogs, finding contemporary political relevance in the relics of the ritualistic killings.<ref name="Heaney">{{cite book |last=O'Donoghue |first=Bernard |title=The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney |year=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-83882-5 |pages=194–196}}</ref> Heaney's poem "The Tollund Man", published in his ''[[Wintering Out]]'' collection, compares the ritual sacrifice to those who died in the sectarian violence of "[[the Troubles]]".<ref name="Heaney"/> Heaney wrote an excerpt from the poem in the Tollund Man exhibit's guest book in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tollundman.dk/heaney.asp |title=The Nobel Prize Winner's Poem about the Tollund Man |year=2004 |work=The Tollund Man |publisher=Silkeborg Public Library |access-date=20 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220082107/http://www.tollundman.dk/heaney.asp |archive-date=20 February 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

British author [[Margaret Drabble]], in her 1989 novel ''[[A Natural Curiosity]]'', uses her characters' obsession with the Tollund Man to provide a satirical criticism of [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s modern England.<ref>{{cite news |last=Boxer |first=Sarah |title=A New Literary Hero: The Limp, Silent Type |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/books/a-new-literary-hero-the-limp-silent-type.html |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 1991 |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=5 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005061437/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/books/a-new-literary-hero-the-limp-silent-type.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Karin |title=Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination |date=2009 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-73404-0 |pages=254–55}}</ref>

Tollund Man is featured in several songs: "[[Sweden (album)|Tollund Man]]" (1995) by the American folk band [[The Mountain Goats]] and "[[Love Is Only a Feeling|Curse of the Tollund Man]]" (2004) by the English rock band [[The Darkness (band)|The Darkness]].

Tollund Man was mentioned in the episode "Mummy in the Maze" of the American television series ''[[Bones (TV series)|Bones]]''<ref>Williams, Scott. "Mummy in the Maze". ''Bones''. Dir. Marita Grabiak. Fox. 30 Oct. 2007. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.</ref> and was also mentioned in the 2016 film ''[[Sacrifice (2016 film)|Sacrifice]]'' in which a bog body was found in the Shetland Islands.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/sacrifice-2016/ | website=slantmagazine.com | publisher=Slant Magazine | first=Clayton | last=Dillard | title=Review: ''Sacrifice'' | date=April 25, 2016}}</ref>

He is the subject of the novel ''Meet Me at the Museum'' by Anne Youngson in which the main characters bond through a shared fascination with the Tollund Man.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/636061509/bonding-over-bog-bodies-in-meet-me-at-the-museum | title=Bonding Over Bog Bodies In 'Meet Me At The Museum' | first=Heller | last=McAlpin | website=npr.org | publisher=National Public Radio | date=August 7, 2018}}</ref>