Quote Originally Posted by sdk80
Tellos you shirk arguments and facts.

Than your last and craziest "argument" (don't want to offend I'm just aghast) was, that people actualy were afraid of going into the bog for gaining wood or the forests weren't accessable!! I really can't believe it. Those bogs are only scary for us modern humans, while people inhabiting that area in the antiquity pretty good lived with it. But they also were a place of community like religious rituals (there are plenty of bog-corpses which proof this, because those bodies didn't go down there accidently, but were sacrificed) and working places (like gaining wood and cutting peat, which they did without any doubt). Many of these bogs were also holy places and therefore highly frequented - only with christianity the perception on places like bogs changed dramatically - During decades of christianisation they became strange, creepy places in the mind of the now christianised people with devils, demons, ghosts and whatever else wandering around - and this mindchange since christianity about places like Bogs and Deep forrests is well documented and an everywhere accepted fact. It was even activated and cultivated by the early missionaries in order to keep people away from those pagan shrines!
In my mind this argument makes no sense to me. You said here that these bogs were indeed used as holy places, correct? Now if they were holy places, why would its people defile the place by wading in there and chopping down the trees. Im sure the priests or whatever would not agree to his, or the people who, you say, frequent these places. Now dont get me wrong im not backing up the other guys argument im just bashing yours, also Christians cultivating the place has nothing to do with ancient germans