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This Skeleton Is The First Person Ever Found From a Norse Saga

"They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones." So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on to rule Norway from 1184 until his death in 1202 CE.

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