A Danish Viking king, Harald Gormsson, whose nickname Bluetooth or Cyanide (Bluetooth) was given to the widely used short-range wireless telecommunications technology invented by the Swedish company Eriksson and subsequently became a global standard, is at the center of a new conflict which has to do with his burial place.
The king died the 985 AD and the question at issue is whether he is buried in Denmark or Poland (and where exactly in the last one). Medieval chronicles state that Harald he had a bluish tooth (probably because it was broken), hence the nickname. One chronicle places his burial in Roskilde, Denmark, but two new independent publications by a Swedish and a Polish researcher, according to the Associated Press, argue that he is likely buried in Viekovo village of present-day northwestern Poland, which had close ties with the Vikings at the time.
Ericsson chose the nickname Bluetooth for its new technology in the late 1990s, wanting to signal its ability to wirelessly connect various devices, on the grounds that this particular “Bluetooth” king had united much of Scandinavia. In fact, the Bluetooth logo was designed based on the Norse runic letters for the king’s initials UK.
As reported by the Athens News Agency, Marek Krida, author of this year’s book “Poland of the Vikings”, claims the king’s remains lie beneath a 19th-century Roman Catholic church in the Polish village of Wiekowo. He bases his belief on satellite imagery revealing an unseen round burial mound that hints at Viking burial customs.
But the Swedish archaeologist Sven Rosborn in his own book, published in 2021 (“The Golden Treasure of the Viking King Harald”), believes that Harald, who had converted from paganism to Christianity and then founded churches in Poland, has he is buried in a regular Christian grave somewhere else in the area, probably in the courtyard of some church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. For their part, historians at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen probably prefer the version that the king was finally laid to rest on their own soil.
Harald was one of the last Viking kings who ruled what is now Denmark, northern Germany and parts of Sweden and Norway, playing an important role in the spread of Christianity in his territory. He certainly could not have imagined that he would give his name to one innovative wireless technology!
Source: News Beast
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