A skeleton found in a well in 1938 appears to be the exact individual mentioned in a centuries-old text, complicating ...

Genetic analysis has confirmed a detail of an important Norse saga, telling us more about someone dubbed the "Well-man".

Scientists just uncovered the truth behind “Well Man,” and proved he was a lot more than just a poor unfortunate soul.

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The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones”, in what may have been an early act of biological warfare - and now resea ...

A passage in the Norse "Sverris Saga," the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that ...

The centuries-old 'Well Man' skeleton was dumped in the well of a Norwegian castle, and researchers have spent years scratching their heads as to why it was there, and if there was some greater ...

Using this information, the team was able to ascertain that he most likely had blue eyes and blond or light-brown hair, and his ancestors likely hailed from the southernmost Norwegian county of ...

A new ancient DNA analysis study from Norway has potentially identified the "Well-man", an individual thrown into a well ...

Archaeologist Anna Petersén, of the Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage Research in Oslo, said ... to ascertain that he most likely had blue eyes and blond or light-brown hair, and ...