An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in ...

The remains of a man thrown in a well about eight centuries ago. Image: Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet In a frankly unbelievable turn of events, a team of archaeologists in Norway have ...

Researchers from Norway used ancient DNA to corroborate a story from the Sverris Saga, where a man’s body was thrown into a well. Genetic analysis reveals what the man might have looked like and ...

Instead, either this defender had origins in the south, or the attackers had thrown one of their own dead into the well, the authors wrote. Archaeologists think "Sverris Saga" was written around ...

It’s not possible to say with certainty how the man died. Researchers think he was probably dead before he was thrown in the well because of injuries to the skull — which also squares with the ...