ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone

The Jelling Stones, thousand-year-old Viking runestones, sit in the town of Jelling in Denmark. They tell the tale of Harald Bluetooth: one of the first kings of Denmark. Here's why his name is on your phone.
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Sources for this video:
en.natmus.dk/historical-knowle...
whc.unesco.org/en/list/697
www.eetimes.com/document.asp?d... (written by Jim Kardach himself!)

[@armagetronfasttrack9808]

Did you know? Bluetooth was invented by Harald Bluetooth in 965 when he tried to connect Denmark and Norway twice at the same time.

[@MidtownSkyport]

I was waiting for you to pull up a third, comedy-sized, hood at some point in that video

[@qwertzy121212]

You said the glass is to keep vandals out, but what about goths and celts?

[@TomScottGo]

English speakers: yes, I know, Jelling kind of sounds like "Yelling". Leave your jokes in this thread. Danish speakers: I'm deliberately mangling the stress in the word to make it sound less like "Yelling" to try and minimise those jokes. Sorry.

[@morrisnimblejohn2540]

What does it mean then when my phone says "do you want to turn Bluetooth on?" :\

[@sergheiadrian]

So, Danes had Bluetooth 1000 years ago...

[@STANNco]

i can now thank my mother for spending our summer vacation to see that freaking stone. I touched it before it was in glass. wohooo. I wanted to go to legoland instead but still

[@Halosty45]

If anybody else had told me there was a Harald Bluetooth, I might have raised an eyebrow and asked them if they were making it up.

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

Nah m8 that's just a misconception. Harald Bluetooth invented bluetooth

[@darkridge]

Henceforth, I shall refer to Bluetooth as Harald, or Harry if I'm feeling informal.

[@IngeNaning]

Fun fact: This is not the only rune stone mentioning Harald Bluetooth. Outside of Ericsson's offices in Lund, Sweden, there is a stone with the inscription "Ericsson Mobile Communications AB erected this stone to honor the memory of Harald Blåtand, who gave his name to a new technology for wireless mobile communication" (roughly translated from runic Swedish).

[@citolero]

I've often wondered how long it would take to explain Bluetooth to Harald Bluetooth, and what steps you'd have to go through.

[@MicroBlogganism]

The depiction of Jesus on the stone is also rather interesting. It's a amalgam of Norse and Christian symbolism. You can see the two cultures/religions merging. Jesus is in a position as if hanging on a cross, but instead of the cross he hanging in what looks like a tangle of branches, which is possibly a reference to Odin hanging from Yggdrasill.

[@MartinMllerSkarbiniksPedersen]

btw: The stones was painted with beautiful colours back in Harald's time. And Harald's runestone appears on the inside front cover of the Danish passport.

[@HappyCamper1206]

This was so danish weather. I wish i could have met you randomly.

[@doddleoddle]

this is incREDIBLE

[@JoelK1991]

As a Swedish archaeologist this makes me realy happy =D

[@NolanManteufel]

Hey Tom!

[@jonasphilbert6175]

You gotta' let us Danish fans know when you visit our little insignificant country! Are you still in Denmark?

[@DGVlogsHub]

This was something I knew about before watching the video, but Tom Scott still does a great job at making it interesting. Where if I might explain it to someone, I'd be all over the place and would just confuse the person. He just does a great job at being concise and informative