Harold Bluetooth's palace has been discovered and is being excavated in Jutland.link
Harald ruled Denmark between 940 and 985 AD and is reputed to have conquered Norway and converted the country to Christianity.
The Bluetooth interface developed by Ericsson for wireless connections – with a logo consisting of the runic letters H and B – is named after him.
Why? Well, the InkyfoolBlog: "...Jim Kardach developed a system in 1996 that would allow mobile telephones to communicate with computers thus uniting two independent areas of technology. Whilst working on the project he read The Longships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson ... The novel is set in the time of Harald Bluetooth. Jim Kardach felt he was uniting warring provinces of technology so he named the project Bluetooth.
which explains the runestone logo.
The above illustration of Harold comes from the blog, which notes it was "An original marketing slide for Bluetooth technology incorporating a (slightly altered) runestone image of Harald Bluetooth."
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