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DNA helps match 'Well Man' skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga


The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones”, in what may have been an early act of biological warfare - and now researchers believe they have found the skeleton of the man in question

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That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare.