'Well-man' thrown from castle identified from 800-year-old Norse saga

ScienceDaily
Oct 25, 2024, 12:23 pm97 pts
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 Sverresborg Castle, outside Trondheim in central Norway, likely as an attempt to poison the main water source for the local…

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