Luckily for any fan of Vikings, the Norse gods are one of the most developed pantheons in the game, offering up fan favorites like Loki and Thor as well as the more obscure heroes of mythology ...

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 ...

Scientists have connected 800-year-old skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a mysterious figure ...

Now, advancements in technology have enabled researchers to analyze the remains found.“This is the first time that a person ...

The bones have been dated to around 900 years ago, corresponding with the historical record of the Norse story 'Sverris Saga' ...

So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary ...

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 : ...