Word: jutland
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...into his private and cultural past (first addressed in his famous poem by that same name) soon unearthed the central myth of the bog people, men and women (apparently sacrificed to Mother Earth to guarantee a good harvest in prehistoric times) that were recently found in the swamplands of Jutland and Ireland, perfectly preserved and fully intact. After composing a series of "bog poems" in which Heaney identified the subverted society of his native Ireland with these perfectly preserved bodies, Heaney became more overtly political once the age-old tensions between England and Ireland began to escalate...
LECTURES By Seamus Heaney 10/13, 10/20, 10/27 (8 p.m. SCC) "Talking Shop": 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 (5:30 p.m. Emerson 105 and SCD) Out there in Jutland, In the old man-killing parishes, I will feel lost, Unhappy, and at home. --Seamus Heaney, "The Tollund...
...Falle Hansen Skow, picking up the chest one morning in 1872, when he was 16, easing it onto the back of a farm wagon, then riding with his father to the train station. The night before, he had carved his initials on a windowsill of his parents' farmhouse in Jutland, "so you won't forget me." A few years earlier, Germany had inhaled his part of Denmark, and thus as a teenager he was in danger of being drafted into the Kaiser's army. No thanks. His folks scraped together enough money to buy him passage...