Every time a phone connects to wireless earbuds or a car stereo, a tiny Viking legacy quietly flickers to life. The short‑range radio standard known as Bluetooth did not get its name from a lab ...

Archaeologists scrutinizing two groups of runestones from Denmark have determined the name ‘Thyra’ mentioned in the two inscriptions refers to the same woman: Queen Thyra, wife of Gorm the Old, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The burial site dates back to the reign of King Harald Bluetooth Gormsson. Construction workers digging about four miles north of ...

The technology behind Bluetooth connectivity has become increasingly popular and has been used by a new generation of hearing aids and COVID-19 contact tracing apps, among other things. While the ...

In a historic gesture, Denmark has officially granted the creators of Bluetooth technology the right to use the name and symbol of Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson for the next 1,000 years.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — One of the best-known modern technologies owes its name and logo to a Viking-era king with a bad tooth: a quarter century ago, two engineers hatched the idea for the moniker ...

From Viking heritage to the birth of Denmark and its conversion to Christianity, a trip from Jutland to Zealand reveals a wealth of history Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor ...

Archaeologists associated with the Moesgaard Museum in Denmark uncovered the untouched burial site of a powerful chieftain from the Viking Age. Thirty burial plots, likely containing the remains of ...

WIEJKOWO, Poland — More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a European king whose nickname lives on through wireless technology is at the center of an archaeological dispute.

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