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In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of an under-siege castle in Norway. Now that corpse ...

An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a ... including people whose names never appeared in history books. “This guy is a marginal character. ‘Character’ is not even the ...

Scientists corroborated an 800-year-old story about the literal poisoning of a well, according to a report in iScience. The Norse Sverris Saga, which recounts tales about King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...

A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be ...

Study co-author Michael Martin, an evolutionary geneticist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told Live Science this may be the first time a person in the Norse sagas had been ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

Stunning frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology were discovered at the Pompeii archaeological site. Credit: scruff monkey. CC BY 2.0/Flickr Archaeologists have uncovered a ...

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