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Bookmark or Share- DNA helps match 'Well Man' skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian sagaThe Sverris saga is an 182-verse Old Norse text that records the exploits of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who rose to power in the second half of the 12th century AD. One part says that a rival clan ...
- DNA analysis of medieval man thrown into a well suggests story in Norse ...The events are recorded in "Sverris Saga," one of the "King's Sagas," or prose poems, written in Norway and Iceland between the 12th and 14th centuries to glorify Norse kings.
- A medieval saga told of a man thrown in a well. Scientists found him.The Sverris saga has been thought by scholars to be a mostly reliable source of information about events in early Norway, according to Armann Jakobsson, a professor of old Icelandic literature of ...
- Skeletal remains of ‘Well-man’ linked to centuries-old Norse text - CNNThe Sverris saga is a window into the ambitious rise of King Sverre, who lived from 1152 to 1202 and reigned over Norway during the second half of the 12th century. The text includes revelations ...
- That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare.This early biological warfare is recorded in “Sverris Saga,” a contemporaneous biography of the king, who reigned over much of Norway from 1184 to 1202. ... “This is the first time that the ...
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