#Bockstensmannen
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we lay here for years or for hours
thrown here or found
to freeze or to thaw
so long we become the flowers
two corpses we were
two corpses i saw
on the 24th we celebrate midsommar, or summer solstice here :) its a holiday i hold very close to my heart and it means a lot to me, and so does this bog body, nicknamed bockstensmannen. and i dont really know what compelled me to draw this but i felt really emotional while drawing it. archaeology and art will do that to you i guess. hozier felt fitting.
#dont even speak about that midsommar movie on this post i am not interested and i dont wanna fucking hear it thanks ! :)#bog posting on main!!!#i hold so much love and fondness for this bog body you guys have no idea#this is based on a photo i took of bockstensmannen while visiting the museum he's located at#i have spoken to the people who take care of his body and the exhibition surrounding him and i get so emotional just by thinking about it#anyway. this is a midsommar post!#bockstensmannen#archaeology#arkeologi#bog bodies#bog body#skeleton#digital art#digital painting#cultural heritage#midsommar#summer solstice#corps art
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one of my funniest therapy moments was when i asked the therapist ‘so you know the Bocksten Man?’ and it was clinically relevant.
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när jag fortfarande använde tinder skrev jag en gång “bockstensmannen och chill” i min bio och jag har aldrig fått så många meddelanden och superlikes som då
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#poll#svensk#svenska#sverige#sweden#swedish#original post#sfw#svenska memes#meme#2023#svea rike#all makt åt tengil vår befriare#sa du sten
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Everyday in my notes people love and support bockstensmannen
Bockstensmannen being one of swedens absolute most famous dead people showcased at a swedish museum
It is interesting to show how much attention he apperntly could get on a international plattform
Bockstensmannen go! And also, perhaps if you found my blog via bockstensmannen post, please consider clicking the link for the musuem who got him. They need some well deserved internet traffic!
And also, i feel like they should reap some pf the benefits, my post being me basically live blogging what i learned on their website
This is the link to the musuem.
There are translation options to click on the website. They appear to be sadly be machine generated though... but swedish and english are closely related languages, so at least that one should be unddrstanble, although oddly worded at times
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The Bocksten Man
Introduction
The case about the Bocksten Man might seem mundane at first glance; the murder was committed sometime during the 12th century, neither the victim nor the murderer is known and the method of killing was not unusual. However, the Bocksten Man is now displayed at the Varberg County Museum in Sweden since his body is one of the most well-preserved in Europe. The Bocksten Man’s liver, brain, cartilage, and parts of his lungs are preserved, and even his hair and clothing are intact.
Who was the Bocksten Man?
By examining the Bocksten Man’s teeth, odontologist Gunnar Johansson concluded that the victim was around 25-30 years old when he died. His place of birth is unknown, but he spent at least one year in Varberg before he was killed. The victim was around 170 cm, he did not have a lot of muscle mass and was of slender build. His profession has been debated, but one theory is that the Bocksten Man was a priest. This theory was based on the hood he was wearing, which was common clothing within the church. Another indicator of his profession is a symbol on his shield, which according to amateur historian Owe Wennerholm depicts a cross. Even if the Bocksten Man was not a priest, most historians agree that he was of higher social class, which is based on the fact that he did not have a lot of muscle mass.
How did he die?
According to professor Claes Lauritzen, the Bocksten Man was beaten to death. The murder weapon is not known, but Lauritzen believes that a pole could have been used in the murder. The victim was hit across his lower jaw, right ear and was then killed by being hit in the back of his head.
The impalement
When the Bocksten Man was found in 1936, 600 years after his death, he was impaled with three poles. One had been lodged in his heart, the second above his hip and the third had only ripped the victim’s clothing. Impaling corpses were probably common during this era, since people believed that impaling the dead would prevent the corpse from becoming a ghost.
Sources
Wikipedia (swedish)
Wikipedia (english)
Hallands kulturhistoriska museum
Svenska mord, written by Jan-Öjvind Swahn
#tcc#true crime#true crime community#tcr#true crime original#unsolved#unsolved murder#murder#swedish crime#bockstensmannen#sweden#my post
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science and history is so crazy like babes ?? they'll look at a 2000 year old skeleton and know the person's whole life story, look at a word and date it by the sound changes it has gone through, look at a mountain and tell you how it was shaped
#insane!!! fascinating!!#yeah I just watched a Mary Beard Pompeii documentary#shit getting preserved like that?#Pompeii!! Ötzi!! Bockstensmannen!!#I often walk past a rune stone and now when it's summer and it's all green and grassy and flowery I really get !!!!#like people have passed this stone (standing here or in the vicinity at least) for almost a thousand years!!#and I can just touch it? feel it? look at it?#babes!!
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gonna finish writing a script for an assignment and then i'll continue with the doodle requests btw!!
#also im cooking myself dinner so im gonna do that and eat too AVFKWJDJ#in a really good mood today i got to through around some ideas for my thesis on a seminar today#im actually really excited to write this#its gonna be about bog bodies!!!!#mostly focused on bockstensmannen <33333#corp.krax
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#being really normal and not crying over prehistoric human remains and such#bog body#bog bodies#bockstensmannen#tollund man#archaeology
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the bocksten bog man and his head full of hair, 14th century, sweden
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är lowkey arg över att det bara finns tre posts i bockstensmannen taggen....my homie
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Fiske
Det här med att vara bra på att fiska är något jag aldrig kommer begripa.
Folk måste ha en satans tur att de råkar ställa sig på rätt plats vid rätt tid, för annars finns det ingen logik i att jag inte haft ett hugg på en krok på tre år.
Andra människor kan minsann dra iväg i en timme och komma hem med sex gäddor, tretton abborrar, sjuhundra strömmingar, bockstensmannen och The fucking jävla Kraken.
Själv sitter jag i timtal och lyssnar på det sövande klucket från vågorna under bryggan. Tittar på fåglarnas vackra luftdans i den smått värmande kvällssolen. Försöker njuta av stunden. Samtidigt som jag blir fullkomligt jävla ROSENRASANDE över att de satans fiskhelvetena inte hugger på mina fina dyra krokar.
Vad är det för fel på min utrustning, liksom? Varför duger inte mina färgglada drag med häftiga vibrationer i vattnet, när ryssen på bryggan bredvid drar opp halva Östersjön medans han glatt smuttar på en byxvarm stolichnaya?
Jag var jävligt pepp på fiske imorse. Inte nu längre.
Nästa gång pilkar jag i frysdisken.
Tack och hej och piss i havet.
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Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??
Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!
(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)
Picture from: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/
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