For background Dr. Currelly had the old Norse sagas of Eric, Leif, Bjarni, Karlsefni, the trader. For material evidence, he had the age-crusted sword, broken in two, and fragments of the ax and ...

All languages borrow words from neighboring languages, and if a language has great geographical spread, as English has, it ...

Researchers say the discovery matched "very well" with a story documented in a historical text known as the Sverris Saga.

Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a ...

The incident is chronicled in a medieval Norse text, which suggests that the ... Radiocarbon dating revealed that the bones are about 900 years old. “To me, he looked as if he had been severely ...

It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga ... describe sequencing the genome of a sample of 800-year-old DNA that may well be the man thrown down that well ...

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