Skeleton found in well is actually body of man from famous 800-year-old story

The ‘Well-man’ was discovered in 1938 and now, researchers know what happened to him

Researchers have finally figured out the identity of an 800-year-old skeleton which was found in a well.

Known as ‘Well-man’, it was discovered at Norway’s Sverresborg castle and was even mentioned in a passage in Norse text.

Sverris saga talks about the real-life King Sverre Sigurdsson, and also a moment where a dead man was tossed into a week during a military raid in 1197.

According to the text, raiders threw the body into the well to poison the main water source, but nothing more identifiable about the man was included in the passage.

Because of this, researchers were able to pinpoint when the man was placed in the well, and why.

It was in 1938 that the body was initially discovered, however due to a lack of resources, they could only look at him and excavate a few bones.

But now, scientists have been able to figure out what he would have looked like thanks to technological innovation.

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