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Hello, and welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval from History Hit. I'm Dr. Kat

Jarman. Now, if you have a smartphone, you probably use Bluetooth technology for connecting

wireless devices. And you may or may not know that this technology was named after the

Danish king, Harold Bluetooth. And in fact, the little symbol on your phone is actually

a combination of the room's H and B. And the reason why this name was chosen was that

the technology is meant to gather and unite devices in the same way that Harold, the

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