Is Danish king who gave his name to Bluetooth buried in Poland?

Is Danish king who gave his name to Bluetooth buried in Poland?
The 10th century golden Curmsun disc with the name of Danish King Harald ‘Bluetooth’ Gormsson on it (Sven Rosborn/AP)

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 centre of an archaeological dispute.

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 says the Viking king was buried in Roskilde in Denmark in the late 10th century.

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