More than 825 years ago, in 1197, an ancient saga tells the story of a man's body being thrown into a well by those looking ...

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

The skeletal remains of the man were found in a well in a Norwegian castle in 1938 ... the authors wrote. Related: Medieval ...

New research suggests that people with dark personality traits and an insecure attachment style often feel excluded or ...

Archaeologists were recently able to confirm an 800-year-old tale of medieval biological warfare ... site was indeed the much-discussed “Well Man.” Was a deadly bioweapon once dropped in ...

Well-man skeleton (Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet) The elusive medieval man’s bones were first found in the well at Sverresborg Castle, but researchers lacked the tools at the time to do much ...

Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the body is around 900 years old, and previous studies suggested it was a man aged 30-40 ...

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DNA analysis of a medieval man in Norway supports the accuracy of the Sverris Saga, revealing details of a 12th-century poisoning plot.

Richard Price plays with those resonances in his arresting if occasionally diffuse new novel, “ Lazarus Man ,” which percolates with all manner of rebirths in the wake of a building’s explosion amid a ...

New ancient DNA analysis also suggested that the dead man's ancestors came from southern Norway, which challenges the assumption by some researchers that he was one of the castle defenders from ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the skeleton and DNA of the Norse “well man” of lore whose remains were thrown into a well, likely to poison a castle’s main water source during a military ...