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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Remains of mysterious Norse ‘well man’ of lore reveals secrets of medieval biological warfare

Archaeologists have reconstructed the skeleton and DNA of the Norse “well man” of lore whose remains were thrown into a well, likely to poison a castle’s main water source during a military raid.

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.

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