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 ...

Keep scrolling to learn everything you need to know about ... The Poetic Edda is an ancient collection of Old Norse narrative ...

Excuse me. Yes, you… would you like to learn about the Vikings? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning…The Vikings lived over 1000 years ago, but they don’t look that old to me, what’s ...

Called 'Old Norse Sagas', these tales of heroes, warriors, epic adventures and amazing insights in to daily life all still seem highly relevant today. Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez ...

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 ...

A mum has taken to the internet to ask for advice after realising she accidentally made a huge mistake with her son's name - ...

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