Archaeologists were recently able to confirm an 800-year-old tale of medieval biological warfare. The Norwegian historical chronicle Sverris saga tells the story of an attack that involved a ...

On Monday 28 October, Norwegian based long-haul low cost carrier, Norse Atlantic, celebrated the launch of it’s inaugural service from London Gatwick to Cape Town, South Africa. The new route, set to ...

Please verify your email address. While Norse flew one of its Dreamliners to Cape Town last year, it has officially returned with its first-ever scheduled passenger flight to South Africa. The ...

The incident is chronicled in a medieval Norse text, which suggests that the men hoped to poison the area’s water supply. Known as the Sverris Saga, the tale is named for King Sverre Sigurdsson ...

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. The saga ...

"They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones." Now, thanks to the efforts of a team of scientists from Scandinavia, Iceland, and Ireland, we have direct, ...

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Scientists corroborated an 800-year-old story about the literal poisoning of a well, according to a report in iScience. The Norse Sverris Saga, which recounts tales about King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...

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 ...

In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of an under-siege castle in Norway. Now that corpse ...