In cultures around the world, stories of great battles and powerful people are passed down from generation to generation. Stories can change from fact to fantasy as each new group passes them along ...

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 follows the ...

Researchers have unearthed new findings about a mysterious, centuries-old corpse that was dumped in a Norwegian castle’s well. Most of what is known about Norway’s early history comes from the Sverris ...

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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 ...