Additionally, a noose made of plaited animal hide was drawn tight around his neck and trailed down his back.

There was short stubble (1 mm [0.039 in] in length) on his chin and upper lip, suggesting that he was usually clean-shaven, but had not shaved on the day of his death.

The Tollund Man's last meal consisted of a porridge with barley, flax, wild weed seeds, and some fish.

[10] The preserved tender soft tissues of his body are the consequence of the acid in the peat, along with the lack of oxygen underneath the surface and the cold climate of the Nordic countries.

Scientists conducted an isotope analysis of the element strontium to measure the exact quantities to get an accurate idea of where he may have travelled before his death.

The results contained only small differences in strontium isotope proportions, suggesting that he spent his final year in Denmark, and that he may have moved at least 30 kilometres (20 mi) in his last six months.

[16] Scientists identified the man's last meal as porridge or gruel made from grains and seeds, both cultivated and wild.

In 1976, the Danish police made a fingerprint analysis, making Tollund Man's thumbprint one of the oldest prints on record.

[21] Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote a series of poems inspired by P. V. Glob's study of the mummified Iron Age bodies found in Jutland's peat bogs, finding contemporary political relevance in the relics of the ritualistic killings.

[22] Heaney's poem "The Tollund Man", published in his Wintering Out collection, compares the ritual sacrifice to those who died in the sectarian violence of "the Troubles".

[27] He is the subject of the novel Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson in which the main characters bond through a shared fascination with the Tollund Man.