Skeleton Unearthed in Norwegian Castle Well Unveils Mysteries of 800-Year-Old Ancient Text, ‘Sverris Saga' The 800-year-old ...

The events are recorded in "Sverris Saga," one of the "King's Sagas," or prose poems, written in Norway and Iceland between ...

The findings corroborate with the Norse Sverris Saga, an 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, according to researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The saga ...

with a surprising twist about how he ended up in a Norse saga. The Sverris saga is a window into the ambitious rise of King Sverre, who lived from 1152 to 1202 and reigned over Norway during the ...

A passage in the Norse "Sverris Saga," the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at ...

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. Study co-author Michael ...

told Live Science this may be the first time a person in the Norse sagas had been found. He noted genetic analysis was used to identify the remains of England's king Richard III, but they were ...