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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 ...

The identity of skeletal remains discovered in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle has been linked to an ancient Norse text, according to researchers. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which ...

Scientists use genetic data to confirm the story about the poisoning of a well.

Much of what we know about early Norse and Icelandic history comes from the sagas, many of which were written by scholars ...

One text from the collection is called Sverris Saga and tells the history of king Sverre Sigurdsson who lived from 1151 to ...

The incident is chronicled in a medieval Norse text, which suggests that the ... Radiocarbon dating revealed that the bones are about 900 years old. “To me, he looked as if he had been severely ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Norway have confirmed that an ancient set of human remains known as the Well Man were intended to make the ...

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(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 ...