There has been debate over the reason for Lindow Man's death, for the nature of his demise was violent, perhaps ritualistic ; after a last meal of charred bread, Lindow Man was strangled, hit on the head, and his throat cut.

Lindow Man's right foot

Lindow Man's face

There has been a tendency to ascribe the body to the Iron Age period rather than Roman due to the interpretation that Lindow Man's death may have been a ritual sacrifice or execution.

Lindow Man's last meal was preserved in his stomach and intestines and was analysed in some detail.

The top of the Lindow Man's head.

In some interpretations of Lindow Man's death, the sinew is a garrotte used to break Lindow Man's neck.

The rib fracture may also have occurred after death, perhaps during the discovery of the body, but is included in some narratives of Lindow Man's death.

The broken neck would have proven the fatal injury, whether caused by the sinew cord around Lindow Man's neck tightening or by blows to the back of the head.

The wide date range for Lindow Man's death ( 2 BC to 119 AD ) means he may have met his demise after the Romans conquered northern England in the 60s AD.

Lindow Man's permanent home is at the British Museum, although before the remains were taken there, people from North West England launched an unsuccessful campaign lobbying for the body to be kept in Manchester.

John Lindow concurs that Mímameiðr may be another name for Yggdrasil and that if the Hoard-Mímir of the name Hoddmímis holt is the same figure as Mímir ( associated with the spring named after him, Mímisbrunnr ), then the Mímir's holt — Yggdrasil — and Mímir's spring may be within the same proximity.

Lindow says that " Dellingr's doors " may either be a metaphor for sunrise or the reference may refer to the dwarf of the same name.

Lindow says that " many scholars think there may be basis for the myth in an ancient Odin cult, which would be centered on young warriors who entered into an ecstatic relationship with Odin " and that the name Harii has been etymologically connected to the-herjar element of einherjar.

John Lindow says that due to similarity between the goddess Sága's Sökkvabekkr and Fensalir, the open drinking between Sága and Odin, and the potential etymological basis for Sága being a seeress " have led most scholars to understand Sága as another name for Frigg.

John Lindow states that if the first element, mundil-is related to mund, meaning " period of time ," then the name may be a kenning for the Moon.

" Lindow says that, along with many other goddess, some scholars theorize that Lofn may simply be another name for the goddess Frigg.

Lindow says that regarding the theorized connection between the Harii and the Einherjar, " many scholars think there may be basis for the myth in an ancient Odin cult, which would be centered on young warriors who entered into an ecstatic relationship with Odin " and that the name Harii has been etymologically connected to the-herjar element of einherjar.

Lindow states that some scholars theorize that Sjöfn may be the goddess Frigg under another name.

John Lindow says that it is unclear why the gods decide to raise Fenrir as opposed to his siblings Hel and Jörmungandr in Gylfaginning chapter 35, theorizing that it may be " because Odin had a connection with wolves?

John Lindow states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of Snorri's writing in Gylfaginning, and says that when older skaldic poetry " says that people are ' in ' rather than ' with ' Hel, we are clearly dealing with a place rather than a person, and this is assumed to be the older conception ," that the noun and place Hel likely originally simply meant " grave ," and that " the personification came later.

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and ( in jest ) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.

Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss ; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.

Dating the body has proven problematic, but it is thought that Lindow Man was deposited into Lindow Moss, face down, some time between 2 BC and 119 AD, in either the Iron Age or Romano-British period.

Lindow Moss () is a peat bog in Mobberley, Cheshire, which has been used as common land since the medieval period.

Lindow Moss is a lowland raised mire ; this type of peat bog often produces the best preserved bog bodies, allowing more detailed analysis.

Lindow Man is one of 27 bodies to be recovered from such areas.

The close proximity of the discovery sites, coupled with the fact that the remains were shown to come from an adult male, means that Lindow IV is probably part of Lindow Man.

While some preserved human remains may contain DNA, peat bogs such as Lindow Moss are generally poor for such a purpose, and it is unlikely that DNA could be recovered from Lindow Man.

Dating Lindow Man is problematic as samples from the body and surrounding peat have produced dates spanning a 900-year period.

Investigations have not yet discovered settlement or agricultural activity around the edge of Lindow Moss that would have been contemporary with Lindow Man ; however, analysis of pollen in the peat suggests there was some cultivation in the vicinity.

After the discovery of Lindow Man, there were no further archaeological excavations at Lindow Moss until 1987.

Archaeologists John Hodgson and Mark Brennand suggest that bog bodies may have been related to religious practice, although there is division in the academic community over this issue and in the case of Lindow Man, whether the killing was murder or ritualistic is still debated.

John Lindow comments that " I have no idea why Frigg should live in a boggy place, despite the old argument that there is an association with a cult situated at a spring.

Holt is from Kenai, and Lindow spent much of his childhood there.

Lindow compares Fenrir's role to his father Loki and Fenrir's brother Jörmungandr, in that they all spend time with the gods, are bound or cast out by them, return " at the end of the current mythic order to destroy them, only to be destroyed himself as a younger generation of gods, one of them his slayer, survives into the new world order.

The physical evidence allows a general reconstruction of how Lindow Man was killed, although some details are debated, but it does not explain why he was killed.

According to John Lindow, Andy Orchard, and Rudolf Simek the einherjar are commonly connected to the Harii, a Germanic tribe attested by Tacitus in his 1st century CE work Germania.

Excellent examples of such human specimens are Haraldskær Woman and Tollund Man in Denmark, and Lindow man found at Lindow Common in England.

Óðr is often theorized as somehow connected to Odin ( Old Norse: Óðinn ), the head of the Æsir in Norse mythology, by way of etymological similarities between the two ( Lindow states that the linguistic relationship is identical to that of Ullr and Ullin — often considered as variant names of a single god ), and the fact that both are described as going on long journeys, though Lindow points out that Snorri is careful to keep them apart.

They even preserve human bodies for millennia ; examples of these preserved specimens are Tollund Man, Haraldskær Woman, Clonycavan Man and Lindow Man.

Lindow, Brownell, Stuart, and Noonan are all from Anchorage.

According to John Lindow, Andy Orchard, and Rudolf Simek connections are commonly drawn between the Harii and the Einherjar of Norse mythology ; those that have died and gone to Valhalla ruled over by the god Odin, preparing for the events of Ragnarök.