A team of researchers found the remains of the “Well-man” from an 800-year-old Norse saga and used ancient DNA analysis to reconstruct who he was.

The author and shepherd is closely associated with England’s Lake District but in recent years has lost his heart to the remote Vega archipelago ...

Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a ...

Genetic analysis has confirmed a detail of an important Norse saga, telling us more about someone dubbed the "Well-man".

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Norway was racked by civil war ... This last piece of information suggested that people moved ...

Researchers have unearthed new findings about a mysterious, centuries-old corpse that was dumped in a Norwegian castle ... texts and give insight into how people were traveling across the ...

Louis Droege via Unsplash In cultures around the world, stories of great battles and powerful people are ... history of Norway can be traced back to just a few texts, the Old Norse sagas, which ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains ... "The return of objects to Rapa Nui will make sure that the ...

[Related: Stone circles unearthed in Norway mark ancient children’s graves.] The Old Norse Sverris Saga details ... surface contamination of the people who have touched the tooth and then ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

From an under-13s match to a Premier League encounter, over the weekend Andy Mitten attended five football games in 48 hours.

“Those who are currently three, four or five years old should ... in Denmark, Norway and Finland. The Swedish government is ...