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How a Long Dead Danish King Is Memorialized in Modern Phone Technology

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The Bluetooth communications protocol in these devices is named after the king, because he unified Denmark and Norway much like the technology whose goal was to unify computers and cellular phones.[26]

The Bluetooth logo consists of the younger futhark runes, also known as the Nordic runes for his initials, H (Runic letter ior.svg hagall) and B (Runic letter berkanan.svg berkanan) (Long-branch runes version).[27] The younger futhark rune names have been documented; “hagalaz” and “berkana” etc. are posited elder futhark rune names in a posited proto-Germanic.[28]

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