Thank you Wolfgang for "Despite all that, I (personally spoken) think, it's better to believe than to know ." I've no problem with academic speculation, or scientific research, but they will both be creating debates on this question long after my bones and gone to....oh, my, after that article I'm not sure where I want them to go--hidden well, I think. The article says-- "As such it is either not Magnus' skull, or the saga's version of events is not correct." Logic also leaves the possibility that neither is correct. But if I have to live with one until better evidence arrives for the other, I never thought the Sagas were meant to be eye witness accounts, recorded just as we read them today, written at the time of the incident so that no details got blurred. Karen