The Rope
Along with the Elling woman was found a skin rope. This is thought to have been used to hang the Elling woman. Most people at that time were cremated; however anyone that was hung, (usually a sacrifice or a criminal) was placed in the bog. The reason she is not thought to have been a criminal is that she didn’t suffer any other sort of punishment in the form of torture etc. Bodies were placed in the bog for the Gods as it held them between decomposing and staying alive, a kind of half-life, in a sense they were never put to rest.