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Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson was a king of Denmark and Norway.
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politics · 10th-century King of Denmark and Norway · monarch · also Harald Bluetooth, Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, Bluetooth
Born 1 January 0911 · Died 1 November 0985 · Q201041
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The name "Bluetooth," which refers to the standard for shortrange wireless connections, is derived from Viking king Harald Gormsson, who is credited with uniting Scandinavia.” True.
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(but part of a Viking hoard previously discovered in 1841 in the crypt of the Groß-Weckow village church in Pomerania, close to the Viking Age stronghold of Jomsborg), as +ARALD CVRMSVN + REX AD TANER + SCON + JVMN + CIV
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Based on an analogy that the technology would unite devices the way Harald Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom
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On the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea
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Died 0985-11-01.
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Career landmark: monarch of Denmark (0962–0985).
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Born 0911-01-01.
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