For 800 years he was the stuff of Norse legend. Now scientists say skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle belong to the mysterious figure mentioned in a medieval saga. The new ...

— There is scarce a class of humorists whose fortunes have been so fluctuating as those of the punster. We read that in the reign of the wise King James a happy play upon words often insured its ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the study ...

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Norway was racked by civil war. It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga, which is named after king Sverre Sigurdsson. The saga tells ...

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 ...

An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in ...