“By what absolute dismay, in 2024, enlightened young women come to entrust their hearts to stones”

Never say die. In Norway, a team of researchers analyzed the remains of a guy thrown into a well at the end of the 12th century^e century. His story was a one-line story in a popular national saga: “They throw a man into a well and then fill him with stones.” Since then, nothing. This took place in 1197, during the attack on Sverresborg Castle, in the center of the country. An army from the South had slipped through a secret door into the citadel of King Sverre Sigurdsson. After pillaging, ransacking, burning, they threw their victim over the edge.

Under a mass of rubbish, wine bottles, munitions from the last war, stones – history is a torrent of mud that never stops – the skeleton of the poor man was found intact; So you should never throw anything away. Radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis, detailed study of the bones made it possible to draw up a sketch of striking precision…