A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg ...
A team of researchers found the remains of the “Well-man” from an 800-year-old Norse saga and used ancient DNA analysis to reconstruct who he was. An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention ...
For 800 years he was the stuff of Norse legend. Now scientists say skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle are those of the mysterious figure mentioned in a medieval saga. The ...