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Unearthed accidentally during construction work, the graves are presumed to be of Viking origin and offer a glimpse into the ...
Archaeologists were surprised to find 30 Viking Age burials in Denmark, and even more surprised by the extravagant grave ...
An excavation team “had no expectations” of finding graves, much less ones which shed light on a hugely important period in ...
The 10th century golden Curmsun disc with the name of Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (Curmsun in Latin) on it, coming from a tomb at the Roman Catholic church in Wiejkowo, Poland ...
Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a Viking-era burial site near Aarhus, believed to belong to nobles who served King ...
The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people ...
In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in ...
The first time King Harald was given the nickname Blåtand (Bluetooth) is in the Roskilde Chronicle, a 12th-century Latin text probably written by a monk from eastern Denmark.Bluetooth had chosen ...
Harald 'Bluetooth' Gormsson's burial mound may have been found The Viking king ruled Denmark from 958 AD to 986 and is known for bringing Christianity to the country Using technology aboard ...
Though ‘Bluetooth’ was meant to be a temporary code name for the short-range wireless technology while it was under development, it stuck, and the Younger Futhark runes that make up Harald ...
Harald Bluetooth Archaeologists aren't sure why Harald gained the nickname "Bluetooth"; some historians suggest he may have had a prominent bad tooth, as the Norse word for "blue tooth" translates ...
Chronicles from the Middle Ages say King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson of Denmark acquired his nickname courtesy of a tooth, probably dead, that looked bluish. One chronicle from the time also ...