Mosefolket [The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved]

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Creator

P. V. Glob

Title

Mosefolket [The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved]

Coverage

Frogmore

Publisher

Palladin

Date

1975

Description

In 1969 Seamus Heaney purchased a copy of this book on ancient bodies being exhumed from the Jutland bogs, inspiring his best collections: North and Bog Poems. This copy was inscribed for a friend in 1976, “bog-eyed Narcissus”. The words “big-eyed Narcissus” had appeared in an early poem (“Personal Helicon”), but he clearly identified with the bog people. Heaney later presented Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Elizabeth Bishop: “first gurgles from the bog-eyed Narcissus”. 

Source

From the collection of Sammy Jay

Contributor

Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford.