Flowering yarrow (indicating a summer burial) and a bucket of beer made of wheat, honey, bog-myrtle, and cowberries were placed atop.

Her distinctive outfit, which caused a sensation when it was unearthed in the 1920s, is the best-preserved example of a style now known to be common in northern Europe during the Bronze Age.

Initial work by Frei et al in 2015, since contradicted, examined chemical isotopes of strontium from the Egtved Girl's teeth, fingernails, hair, and clothing, and based on these, proposed that she had likely come from the Black Forest region of Germany, but married and moved to Denmark, subsequently traveling back and forth between the two areas.

[5] When Thomsen and Andreasen analyzed samples locally from places uncontaminated by modern farming, they found that the range of strontium isotopic values in the surrounding natural environment matched those in the girl.

In a 2019 article based on strontium isotope analysis, Sophie Bergerbrant suggests an origin of Sweden or Norway for the Egtved Girl.