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Scientists Think a Skeleton Found in a Well Is the Same Man Described in an 800-Year-Old Norse Text
More than 800 years ago, raiders threw a dead body into a well outside a Norwegian castle. The incident is chronicled in a ...
(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, which ...
Around 900 years ago in the modern-day city of Trondheim, Norway, a castle siege left a mysterious dead man at the bottom of a well. Louis Droege via Unsplash In cultures around the world, stories of ...
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Scientists say skeletal remains found in castle well belong to figure from 800-year-old saga
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