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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which ...

In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of an under-siege castle in Norway. Now that corpse ...

An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in Norway, almost as an aside. The poor guy doesn’t even get a name.

Scientists corroborated an 800-year-old story about the literal poisoning of a well, according to a report in iScience. The Norse Sverris Saga, which recounts tales about King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...

A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be ...

Study co-author Michael Martin, an evolutionary geneticist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told Live Science this may be the first time a person in the Norse sagas had been ...

Now, scientists believe these enigmatic bones, which belonged to a man who lived nearly 900 years ago, correspond to a passage in the Sverris Saga, a medieval Norse tale that describes a body being ...

Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga. iScience , 2024; 111076 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076 Cite This Page : ...

Stunning frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology were discovered at the Pompeii archaeological site. Credit: scruff monkey. CC BY 2.0/Flickr Archaeologists have uncovered a ...