14/01/2025
The Egtved Girl (1390–1370 BC) was a Nordic Bronze Age adolescent whose well-preserved remains were discovered outside Egtved, Denmark, in 1921. She was between 16 and 18 years old at the time of her death. She was slim, 1.6 m tall, had short, golden hair, and well-trimmed fingernails. Dendrochronology has dated her burial to 1370 BC. Inside her coffin, the girl was wrapped in an ox-hide. She wore a loose, short-sleeved tunic that reached to the elbows. Her waist was bare and she wore a short rope skirt. She had bronze bracelets on her hands and a woolen belt with a large spiral-patterned disc. The cremated remains of a 5- to 6-year-old child were found near her feet. A small birch box was found next to her head, containing a needle, a bronze pin, and a hairnet. She was covered with a blanket and ox-hide before the coffin was closed. A bucket of blooming yarrow flowers (indicating a summer burial) and a bucket of beer made from wheat, honey, bog-myrtle, and cowberries were placed on her grave. Her distinctive clothing, which caused a stir when it was discovered in the 1920s, is now considered to be the best-preserved example of a typical Bronze Age style in northern Europe. The good preservation of the Egtved Girl's clothing was due to the acidic peat conditions of the local soil, which are common in the region.
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