Uprooted tree reveals violent death from 1,000 years ago

Nearly 1,000 years ago, a young Gaelic man came to a violent end among the dispersed farmsteads of northwestern Ireland.
This, we know, thanks to a 215-year-old tree and a hearty Irish wind.
The young man's remains were discovered tangled in the roots of the tree when it blew over sometime before May. That's when an archaeologist hired by Ireland's National Monuments Service excavated the remains.
The lower leg bones remained in the grave, but the upper part of the body was tangled up in the ro