A skeleton found in a well in 1938 appears to be the exact individual mentioned in a centuries-old text, complicating ...

A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized ...

For background Dr. Currelly had the old Norse sagas of Eric, Leif, Bjarni, Karlsefni, the trader. For material evidence, he had the age-crusted sword, broken in two, and fragments of the ax and ...

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

(CNN) — 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 ...

The corpse referenced in the 800-year-old Norse book Sverris Saga may have been proven to be a real person. The story went that a body was thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of a ...

It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga ... describe sequencing the genome of a sample of 800-year-old DNA that may well be the man thrown down that well ...

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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.

It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga ... Petersen and her colleagues describe sequencing the genome of a sample of 800-year-old DNA that may well be the man thrown ...