The Well-man corroborates and fleshes out a tiny piece of the tale. Radiocarbon analysis of the skeleton suggests he died around the time of the castle invasion in 1197, transforming a plot device into a person.
Armann Jakobsson notes, 'The Sverris saga has been thought by scholars to be a mostly reliable source of information about events in early Norway, but it serves as a piece of propaganda and contains clear biases.'
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