A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be those ...
An 800-year-old Norse story about a military raid has been verified by analysis of ancient DNA. Sverris Saga is one of the Kings’ sagas – a series of Old Norse tales which tell the lives of Nordic ...
WHEN Mr. Longfellow declared that the Manobozho legends of the Chippeways formed an Indian Edda, he spoke as a poet, not as an ethnologist. In the same spirit they might with as much justice have been ...