The Many Ways of Being Human

9.3

Celts, Germans, Vikings

A man lies with his face turned aside and his throat cut from ear to ear, the skin so well kept by peat that the pores still show; peat cutters lifted him from a bog at Grauballe in 1952. Almost nothing from the peoples of the North survives in their own hand, and the chapter shows that Celt, German, and Viking are names that came from outside.