FYI: Strangulation and Bog Burial. Early Germanic Law There are only two crimes

FYI: Strangulation and Bog Burial. Early Germanic Law

There are only two crimes punishable by death in early European civilization: Adultery and Cowardice in Battle (disloyalty, oath breaking).
Everything else was settled by restitution.
Decent people are buried in the ground with some degree of ceremony and respect.
People who are adulterers and cowards are given the opposite treatment: strangulation, slit throat, and disposal in the bog.
We don’t have enough information about Iron Age mythology of waters, marshes, and bogs, but they did have a deep symbolism, and association with the spirit world (the dead).
And even back in to the copper age, especially in a wealthy place with a history of old europe (Balkans), celtic, and germanic metalsmithing, the number of copper and later bronze ‘sacrifices’ in the waters is astounding.

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CD

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