A Dead Body Was Thrown In a Well 800 Years Ago. Turns Out It Was a Medieval Biological Weapon

Popular Mechanics ^ | 11/01/2024 | Michael Natale

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Archaeologists were recently able to confirm an 800-year-old tale of medieval biological warfare.

The Norwegian historical chronicle Sverris saga tells the story of an attack that involved a corpse hurled down a well in order to poison the local water supply.

Scholars long debated the veracity of the story, but a team of archaeologists used DNA analysis to confirm that a corpse found at the site was indeed the much-discussed “Well Man.

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Well man

[CopperTop]

Well dayum..
I've seen somewhat more recent evidence of this sommers.. d;^)

[SunkenCiv]

• Body In Well Confirms Viking Saga [06/12/2016]

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ag8DkipmQ

[T. P. Pole]

I read that headline as “biological woman” and was wondering how they might have known.

[sopo]

I’m going to blame Michael Natale for that as they published it today, looks like he dug up something pretty old himself.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Well, man, no joke. Here's the deal. This is not hyperbole. No, no, not a joke. Not a joke."

[sopo]

the story does kind of bring him to mind.

[Flag_This]

Was it the 12th Imam?

[sopo]

according to legend his name was Fred

[Savage Beast]

"what kind of concrete proof could one possibly find?"

You never know.

I remember, back in college, reading Claude Bernard's An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, first published in 1865, and being amused at his assertion that some disciplines could obviously never be experimental, citing astronomy as an excellent example.

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That was about the Jules Verne era wasn’t it ( no, not when we were in college, you likely well after me). Just goes to show some have more imagination than others.

[Deaf Smith]

I thought it was common knowledge for thousands of years, that invading armies would contaminate wells and cisterns with dead bodies and animals.

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

An unwell well man? Uhh … ok!

[metmom]

That’s been going on for far longer than 800 years from everything I’ve read.

[nuke_road_warrior]

A Dead Body Was Thrown In a Well 800 Years Ago. Turns Out It Was a Medieval Biological Weapon

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLCJRMeuWd8&pp=ygUOQmxhY2sgZXllZCBtYW4%3D

[SunkenCiv]

“Well-man” thrown from castle identified from 800-year-old Norse saga
Cell Press
News Release 25-Oct-2024
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1061746