bog body

Noun

 * 1) A human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
 * 2) * 1996, D. Brothwell, European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation, Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter zur Nedden, Hans Nothdurfter (editors), The Man in the Ice, Volume 3: Human Mummies, Springer, page 161,
 * Records of bog body discoveries extend back to 1640, this date referring to a find in Shalkholz Fen in Schleswig Holstein (Glob, 1969).

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Dutch: veenlijk
 * Finnish: suoruumis
 * French: homme des tourbières
 * German:
 * Italian: mummia di palude
 * Russian: боло́тная му́мия
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, mosskropp