Thank you to ZME Science and Mihai Andrei for the Headline
Why should I care about what happened to a 30 year old man, who was killed in a conflict at Sverresborg Castle, Trondheim Norway, approximately 800 years ago?
The Castle after being raided was left uninhabitable , as they threw an already deceased body of a man into it’s well and covered it with stones to poison the water supply. Good ol’ King Sverre Sigurdsson was away on a winters break in Bergen , so his unfortunate Castle Dwellers were the ones who suffered.
Today the myth has been proven, they found the skeletal remains of the corpse that was thrown into the well and they can prove his age , how he died. They even know what he ate.
Initially his skeleton appeared older than it was, but because he diet was mainly seafood they realised that their results had to be adjusted to allow for the fact that carbon from the ocean appears “older”. Once corrected the man’s demise was plump in the middle of the Sverresborg Castle siege.
What a good start to the day that a suspected Myth has been proven by good old D.N.A analysis. The Genes don’t lie.
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