The saga recounts that during a raid on Sverresborg Castle near Trondheim, attackers threw a dead man into the well to poison ...

King Sverre Sigurdsson had a tumultuous reign. He came to power in Norway in the 12th century and, according to a legendary ...

An expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) at the University of Copenhagen ... “But on the other hand, I also think it’s important that ...

A recent DNA analysis of skeletal remains found in a well at Sverresborg Castle in Trondheim, Norway, is lending new insights ...

Dr Marina Silva of the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, in London, extracted and decoded Offord's ...

A team of researchers found the remains of the “Well-man” from an 800-year-old Norse saga and used ancient DNA analysis to ...

New research has revealed a connection between ancient viral DNA embedded in the human genome and the genetic risk for two ...

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Ancient viral remnants in the human genome are activated during pregnancy and after significant bleeding in order to increase ...

The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...

A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that ...