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Centuries Collide | Cody Crouch: Harald Bluetooth - The Viking And The Wireless Rev | Centuries Collide | January 30, 2025
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- - i'm cody crouch.
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- I'm traveling the globe, uncovering the origins of the
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- Stuff that we use every day.
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- On centuries collide , we're recreating some of history's
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- Greatest moments exactly how they happened...
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- Well, almost exactly.
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- The gutenberg press.
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- - charge!
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- - this is history like you've never seen it before.
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- (music playing)
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- So, stop me if you've never done this before.
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- [camera sounds] let me just send that to you really quick.
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- Do you have your bluetooth on?
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- There you are.
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- There, you should have it.
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- That's pretty cool.
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- But we've all done that, like, a million times, right?
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- It's just one of the many simple ways that we can all utilize
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- Bluetooth technology.
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- Sometimes we can take it for granted,
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- But this tech is an absolute modern marvel.
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- It helps us wirelessly connect to the world around us in an
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- Instant.
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- And its future applications are seemingly endless.
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- But did you know that bluetooth technology isn't just connected
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- To our devices?
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- It's also connected to an ancient king,
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- A king who united a kingdom over
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- 1,000 years ago by connecting to the people around him.
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- Oh, he's also connected to a hollywood star.
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- Stick around,it's time for centuries collide.
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- (music playing)
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- The convenience of bluetooth technology is undeniable.
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- [phone chimes] sorry, a text from my mom.
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- Oh, "doing good.
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- Shooting my show." like i was saying,
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- Having our devices connected via bluetooth is super convenient.
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- I don't-- [phone chimes] sorry.
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- Text from my mom.
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- "i love you,too." i go--what was i saying?
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- Oh, yeah.
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- Bluetooth is great when you're not being bombarded by texts
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- From your mom.
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- It has allowed our world to go wireless,
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- And has found its way into virtually every device,
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- From smartphones, headphones, to speakers, stereos, printers,
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- Cameras, mobile devices.
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- If it doesn't have a wire, it most likely connects via
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- Bluetooth.
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- But what does this modern technology have anything to do
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- With an ancient king?
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- Obviously, bluetooth technology wasn't around 1,000 years ago.
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- But to start the story, i want to rewind the clock to 1937.
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- And like all good origin stories,
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- It starts with a beautiful actress, a secret technology,
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- And, of course, torpedoes.
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- [torpedo explodes] fade in hedy lamarr, 24,
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- An austrian-born actress, flees her marriage from a nazi arms
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- Dealer, and comes to hollywood in hopes of becoming a star.
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- It wouldn't take long for studio executives to notice the beauty
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- Of hedy lamarr.
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- She would help usher in the golden age of hollywood.
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- She would star alongside legends like jimmy stewart, clark gable,
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- And judy garland.
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- While hollywood directors wanted her pretty face to grace the
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- Silver screen, the american military wanted her exceptional
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- Mind to help improve their war machines.
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- This glamorous superstar didn't just have the beauty,
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- She also had the brains.
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- Her best-known role outside of the silver screen was a
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- Collaboration in which she assisted in creating a guiding
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- System for torpedoes.
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- That's right, this hollywood bombshell had a thing for bombs.
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- [torpedo explodes] lamarr and her lab partner used piano rolls
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- To generate jumping radio frequencies.
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- This was later coined as spread-spectrum technology.
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- This bombshell's invention prevented nazi forces from
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- Jamming the signal of the torpedo guidance systems,
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- Allowing ships to located enemy submarines and relay their
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- Position to allied aircraft above.
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- And guess what.
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- This technology was used to make one of the most important
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- Inventions of all time, wi-fi.
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- That's right, a form of spread-spectrum technology is
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- Used in virtually every wi-fi and bluetooth device to this
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- Very day.
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- So, now that we know how spread-spectrum technology came
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- To be, we can finally get it connected to our ancient king,
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- King harald gormsson, or as he's way better known,
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- King harald bluetooth.
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- During the development of another top-secret technology,
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- In toronto in the 1990s, software engineers at intel,
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- Ericsson, nokia, and ibm were struggling to find the perfect
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- Codename for their top secret project.
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- So, after one particularly unproductive day,
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- A couple of the engineers went out for a drink to decompress.
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- Their names were jim kardach, from intel, and sven mattison,
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- From ericsson.
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- - good to meet you.
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- - likewise.
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- So happy to be here.
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- - yeah, i'm happy, too.
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- I don't get to meet people very often.
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- - i can tell.
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- - sven had just finished reading a book about a
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- Particular scandinavian king, king harald bluetooth.
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- - so, do you do any reading?
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- - mainly some graphic novels occasionally,
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- The latest manga hit, but mostly comic books.
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- - i've been doing this reading about this ancient king,
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- A scandinavian king, who united a nation,
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- Just like our technology unites devices.
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- His name was king harald.
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- Now, what do you say we use his name to name our tech?
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- - so, we name our technology harald?
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- - well, his full name was harald gormsson,
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- But his nickname was bluetooth.
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- - bluetooth!
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- We could name our tech bluetooth!
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- We got to tell the guys back at the office.
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- - ok, i'll use my phone that hasn't been invented yet,
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- But that has our technology on it.
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- - after all, the ancient king's story of uniting his diverse
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- Country with christianity was a perfect analogy for what they
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- Were trying to do, unite diverse technology.
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- But it wasn't that simple.
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- The software engineers had come up with another name.
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- Are you ready?
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- This is good.
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- They wanted to call it pan.
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- - it's not cool.
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- And i know cool.
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- - yeah, i mean, pan?
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- Like, peter pan, the peanut butter? or...
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- - i think it's like the frying pan.
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- - oh, ok.
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- - you know, like you're cooking up some technology.
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- - not like the frying kind or the lying kind or even the
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- Flying kind, but the lame name king.
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- Pan was an acronym for personal area network.
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- Yeah, boring.
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- (music playing)
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- Fortunately, this is where the internet actually did a good
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- Thing and totally ruined it for them.
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- You see, the name pan didn't work well with search engines
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- Because it's way too ambiguous.
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- I mean, google it.
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- Actually, we'll do that for you.
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- ( music playing)
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- See?
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- Lame.
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- Engineers, along with the marketing teams,
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- Realized that jim's codename was both memorable and unique,
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- And that it was way better than pan.
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- So, the name stuck, and it became officially known as
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- Bluetooth.
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- (music playing)
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- But why was king bluetooth's name still so perfect 1,000
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- Years later for a technology that unites a bunch of random
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- Devices?
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- Well, in order to understand that,
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- We need to head to the place where the king first made his
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- Mark, his den-mark.
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- Get it?
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- Denmark.
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- - denmark!
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- [laughter] that's even better than what i was thinking.
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- - we're going to denmark. let's go.
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- (music playing)
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- Welcome to copenhagen, the current capital of denmark. i
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- Say "current" because the star of our show, king harald,
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- Originally had the capital somewhere else.
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- But we'll get to that a little bit later.
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- King harald ruled here in denmark over 1,000 years ago,
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- From around the years 940 to 986.
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- His full name was harald gormsson.
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- And he got that name from his father,
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- The previous king whose name was gorm the old.
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- That made harald gorm's son, as in gormsson.
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- Get it?
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- Oh, and while on the subject of names,
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- Nobody really knows how he got the nickname bluetooth.
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- Some sources say that he actually had a rotten tooth in
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- His head that appeared to be a bluish color.
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- But we'll never be certain.
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- Now, it's hard to imagine today anyone taking seriously a leader
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- Named gorm the old, but as far as ancient, viking leaders go,
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- He was actually a pretty good guy.
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- Back in the day, the lands of scandinavia were divided into
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- Tribes, and those tribes were divided by whatever gods that
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- They worshiped.
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- King gorm and his wife thyra wanted to change that.
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- Prior to christianity, the lands of denmark, norway,
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- And sweden worshiped a mixture of deities.
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- The aesir gods were amongst the most popular, odin, loki, thor.
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- Yeah, even back then, there were, like,
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- A ton of marvel fans.
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- - all bow before the hammer of thor.
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- - get it?
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- Like, marvel, like, the comics and stuff.
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- Gorm the old was pretty seriously devoted to all the
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- Norse gods of the time.
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- But his wife, thyra, was more into this new,
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- Up-and-coming movement known as christianity.
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- - what are you doing?
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- - it's the coolest new story about god.
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- - oh, thor, loki, ironman?
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- - jesus.
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- He's the new god everyone's talking about.
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- - all the kids were into it, and gorm was just too old to
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- Understand.
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- - don't ignore me.
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- I'm speaking to you, young man.
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- - will you just read my--
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- - no!
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- - mom!
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- - you just wait until your father gets home.
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- We're going to have a discussion about these new friends of
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- Yours.
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- Honestly.
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- - although the couple didn't exactly see eye to eye on
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- Matters of faith, they were still a power couple as rulers.
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- They worked together to improve the infrastructure and the
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- Security of their territories.
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- And after they both passed away, their son, king harald,
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- Our king, took over the throne.
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- And that's when things really started to come together for
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- Denmark.
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- When bluetooth became king, he set out to unify denmark under
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- One rule.
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- And he succeeded.
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- He became known as the great uniter.
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- To defend his kingdom, he began strengthening existing
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- Fortifications, as well as building new ones,
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- Ones just like this, the trelleborg ring fort,
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- Which is considered the most important remains of the viking
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- Age.
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- Now, this may not look like much, but 1,000 years ago,
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- These fortresses were massive construction projects.
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- They required an enormous amount of resources and manpower to
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- Pull off.
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- Luckily for denmark, bluetooth was just the type of ruler who
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- Could unite people to pull it off.
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- Archaeologists have discovered four other fortresses just like
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- This one.
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- And all five connect directly to king bluetooth.
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- Viking fortresses like this were built for military purposes,
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- But not only did these structures show the king's
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- Military might, they also helped unite denmark into one kingdom.
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- But king harald's reign wasn't just about forts.
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- He began to do something so unprecedented in viking culture
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- That it still affected scandinavia to this day.
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- He began allowing the practice of a foreign religion,
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- Christianity.
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- You see, most christians in scandinavia at the time were
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- Slaves.
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- For vikings, foreign religions were seen as a weakness.
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- The nordic invaders would pillage and plunder other
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- Christian lands in europe.
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- And when they returned to scandinavia,
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- Their newly-captured slaves would be punished,
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- If not killed, if they would not convert to their masters'
- 00:11:58.117 --> 00:12:02.021
- Religion.
- 00:12:02.021 --> 00:12:02.955
- But king bluetooth began changing that.
- 00:12:02.955 --> 00:12:06.058
- He did this first by allowing benedictine monks to preach the
- 00:12:06.058 --> 00:12:09.361
- Gospel in jutland.
- 00:12:09.361 --> 00:12:11.430
- Harald and the head bishop developed a cordial working
- 00:12:11.530 --> 00:12:14.133
- Relationship.
- 00:12:14.133 --> 00:12:15.334
- - christianity is a message of peace, hope, and love.
- 00:12:15.334 --> 00:12:19.271
- It would do well for a king to have his subjects live with
- 00:12:19.271 --> 00:12:23.375
- Peace.
- 00:12:23.375 --> 00:12:29.281
- - my mother was a big fan of jesus.
- 00:12:30.115 --> 00:12:32.651
- She had the coffee mug and the poster and trading cards.
- 00:12:32.651 --> 00:12:37.656
- - mm-hmm.
- 00:12:37.656 --> 00:12:38.591
- - i never really got into it myself,
- 00:12:38.591 --> 00:12:40.759
- But you can share your message with my people.
- 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.662
- - yes.
- 00:12:43.662 --> 00:12:45.231
- Would you like to be baptized, your highness?
- 00:12:46.232 --> 00:12:48.234
- - [laughs] no.
- 00:12:48.234 --> 00:12:52.171
- Vikings bathe one a year, one time all year.
- 00:12:52.171 --> 00:12:58.510
- - but baptism is for a lifetime.
- 00:12:58.510 --> 00:13:02.514
- - on--only one bath forever?
- 00:13:03.182 --> 00:13:10.122
- I will consider.
- 00:13:10.556 --> 00:13:12.258
- - although at first bluetooth did not agree to get baptized
- 00:13:12.358 --> 00:13:15.060
- Himself, the king began to support the spread of
- 00:13:15.060 --> 00:13:17.863
- Christianity among the danes, a first for any viking king.
- 00:13:17.863 --> 00:13:23.102
- King harald also began uniting scandinavia by sending out his
- 00:13:23.102 --> 00:13:27.439
- Nephews to make treaties and alliances throughout the region.
- 00:13:27.439 --> 00:13:31.944
- King bluetooth's nephew, harald greycloak,
- 00:13:32.845 --> 00:13:35.281
- Embarked on a campaign to unify norway under one rule.
- 00:13:35.281 --> 00:13:39.118
- Unfortunately, he and his brothers were a little
- 00:13:39.118 --> 00:13:42.154
- Viking-esque in spreading their adopted faith.
- 00:13:42.154 --> 00:13:44.690
- They broke up pagan practices and desecrated pagan places of
- 00:13:44.690 --> 00:13:48.761
- Worship in only ways vikings could.
- 00:13:48.761 --> 00:13:51.897
- - one!
- 00:13:51.897 --> 00:13:54.533
- Two!
- 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:55.868
- - wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 00:13:55.868 --> 00:13:58.570
- What would jesus do?
- 00:13:58.570 --> 00:14:01.473
- - hm, you're right.
- 00:14:01.473 --> 00:14:04.843
- Jesus would turn the other cheek!
- 00:14:05.577 --> 00:14:09.214
- - the unrest that resulted make unification unlikely.
- 00:14:09.315 --> 00:14:12.384
- So, greycloak began forging alliances with former enemies.
- 00:14:12.384 --> 00:14:16.555
- This did not sit well with king bluetooth.
- 00:14:16.555 --> 00:14:19.325
- After all, they owed him quite a bit for helping them obtain
- 00:14:19.325 --> 00:14:22.828
- Their land.
- 00:14:22.828 --> 00:14:24.663
- - yeah, i'm just glad we're not enemies anymore.
- 00:14:24.763 --> 00:14:28.067
- Cheers to that.
- 00:14:28.534 --> 00:14:30.803
- [chugging] [gasps]
- 00:14:31.303 --> 00:14:33.205
- - so, it didn't come as a surprise when
- 00:14:33.205 --> 00:14:35.674
- Greycloak was assassinated by his new alliances.
- 00:14:35.674 --> 00:14:38.310
- It was then king harald took the opportunity to assert his own
- 00:14:38.310 --> 00:14:42.314
- Rights over his now dead nephew's land.
- 00:14:42.314 --> 00:14:45.184
- In just a few years, harald was able to take control of the
- 00:14:45.184 --> 00:14:49.188
- Whole of norway, making it the first time in scandinavia's
- 00:14:49.188 --> 00:14:52.825
- History that it was united under one ruler.
- 00:14:52.825 --> 00:14:55.728
- In the meantime, christianity had been making headway in
- 00:14:55.728 --> 00:14:59.598
- Denmark.
- 00:14:59.598 --> 00:15:00.699
- As king harald continued to advance his kingdom,
- 00:15:00.699 --> 00:15:02.735
- A monk named poppo asked for an audience with the king.
- 00:15:02.735 --> 00:15:06.905
- Legend has it, poppo was on a missionary journey throughout
- 00:15:06.905 --> 00:15:10.476
- Scandinavia.
- 00:15:10.476 --> 00:15:11.710
- When he arrived here in denmark, he wanted to share with
- 00:15:11.710 --> 00:15:14.847
- Bluetooth the true message of christianity.
- 00:15:14.847 --> 00:15:18.017
- You see, the vikings viewed christianity as a weak religion.
- 00:15:18.017 --> 00:15:22.087
- They were used to serving pagan gods who supposedly spoke
- 00:15:22.087 --> 00:15:25.924
- Through powerful forces of nature,
- 00:15:25.924 --> 00:15:27.659
- Like lightning and thunder.
- 00:15:27.659 --> 00:15:28.994
- And on the outside, all they saw in christianity was a god who
- 00:15:28.994 --> 00:15:33.332
- Could be killed by man, in this case, crucified on a cross.
- 00:15:33.332 --> 00:15:36.902
- And the vikings saw that as a weakness.
- 00:15:36.902 --> 00:15:40.506
- Poppo was there to show them otherwise.
- 00:15:40.506 --> 00:15:43.042
- After some religious debate, king harald finally asked poppo
- 00:15:43.042 --> 00:15:47.379
- To prove that his god was not weak.
- 00:15:47.379 --> 00:15:52.084
- - i will not convert unless you prove the power of your god.
- 00:15:53.318 --> 00:15:56.121
- I cannot serve a god who can be killed by a man.
- 00:15:57.156 --> 00:16:03.562
- [laughing] - you're supposed to put a marshmallow on it first.
- 00:16:04.863 --> 00:16:08.267
- [laughing] - your blade is red hot.
- 00:16:08.267 --> 00:16:18.744
- Let me see your hand.
- 00:16:19.311 --> 00:16:25.317
- His hand is not burnt.
- 00:16:25.884 --> 00:16:31.323
- Jesus must be god.
- 00:16:31.824 --> 00:16:34.126
- - other versions of this legend say that he walked over a hot
- 00:16:34.226 --> 00:16:37.362
- Grill and had no burns to his feet.
- 00:16:37.362 --> 00:16:39.598
- Another one says that he lit himself on fire just to have his
- 00:16:39.598 --> 00:16:43.669
- Clothes burn away.
- 00:16:43.669 --> 00:16:44.603
- Hopefully, he was wearing his fireproof undies.
- 00:16:45.637 --> 00:16:47.873
- Whatever really happened, the miracle was enough to convert
- 00:16:47.873 --> 00:16:51.110
- Even the most bad-to-the-bone viking, king harald bluetooth,
- 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:54.613
- As the first ever christian king of scandinavia.
- 00:16:54.613 --> 00:16:58.350
- - how about them dogs?
- 00:16:58.350 --> 00:16:59.685
- They look done.
- 00:16:59.685 --> 00:17:00.452
- - almost there.
- 00:17:00.452 --> 00:17:01.687
- - now, we can't go any further without saying how much
- 00:17:01.687 --> 00:17:05.591
- Bluetooth's conversion affected his rule.
- 00:17:05.591 --> 00:17:08.660
- It was a big deal and one that would cement his legacy as a
- 00:17:08.660 --> 00:17:13.065
- Great uniter.
- 00:17:13.065 --> 00:17:14.266
- One of the first things bluetooth did was build the
- 00:17:14.266 --> 00:17:16.869
- Church.
- 00:17:16.869 --> 00:17:18.170
- He then exhumed his parents' bodies and gave them a proper,
- 00:17:18.170 --> 00:17:21.406
- Christian burial.
- 00:17:21.406 --> 00:17:22.608
- You see, his conversion left him a different man.
- 00:17:23.675 --> 00:17:27.746
- Like all vikings at the time, you can only imagine how
- 00:17:27.746 --> 00:17:31.250
- Ruthless and violent you would have to be in order to rule over
- 00:17:31.250 --> 00:17:35.020
- Two different countries at the same time.
- 00:17:35.020 --> 00:17:39.925
- In order to understand the reach of bluetooth's kingdom,
- 00:17:41.126 --> 00:17:43.662
- We need to speak to a real viking historian,
- 00:17:43.662 --> 00:17:47.933
- Jacob andreassen.
- 00:17:47.933 --> 00:17:49.701
- King bluetooth was just a different type of viking king.
- 00:17:49.801 --> 00:17:52.871
- - at his time, the country needed a figure that could unify
- 00:17:52.871 --> 00:17:57.776
- And consolidate what has to be a very fragile kingdom at this
- 00:17:57.776 --> 00:18:02.881
- Time.
- 00:18:02.881 --> 00:18:03.982
- He was just a guy needed at that point in time.
- 00:18:03.982 --> 00:18:07.219
- - the king that denmark needed at the time, that's good.
- 00:18:07.219 --> 00:18:10.722
- Why was it important for him to be known as the great uniter?
- 00:18:10.722 --> 00:18:16.295
- - i think it was important to him personally.
- 00:18:16.395 --> 00:18:19.331
- Viking age culture is very much a question of your legacy.
- 00:18:19.331 --> 00:18:26.438
- The vikings, they want to die in battle because the ideal of the
- 00:18:26.438 --> 00:18:29.708
- Warrior is very important, and the legacy of a man is very
- 00:18:29.708 --> 00:18:33.445
- Important.
- 00:18:33.445 --> 00:18:34.513
- And his legacy is that he christened the danes.
- 00:18:34.513 --> 00:18:37.349
- And there were these fortresses consolidating denmark.
- 00:18:37.349 --> 00:18:40.852
- He sows the ground, and it's only his child and
- 00:18:40.852 --> 00:18:46.792
- Grandchildren-- - he plants the seed-- - he plants the seed that
- 00:18:46.792 --> 00:18:50.028
- The next generation are able to sow,
- 00:18:50.028 --> 00:18:52.931
- Going to england and stuff like that.
- 00:18:52.931 --> 00:18:54.866
- - at its largest, how big would bluetooth's kingdom have been?
- 00:18:54.866 --> 00:19:00.739
- - if you would have asked me the same about gorm,
- 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:02.741
- I would probably not have been able to answer you because we do
- 00:19:02.741 --> 00:19:05.244
- Not know the reach of the kingdom of gorm.
- 00:19:05.244 --> 00:19:07.579
- But harald, he has left this mark on the landscape of
- 00:19:07.579 --> 00:19:11.984
- Denmark.
- 00:19:11.984 --> 00:19:13.318
- And if we follow that, we can see exactly how far-reaching his
- 00:19:13.318 --> 00:19:16.288
- Kingdom was, and that is the ring fortresses.
- 00:19:16.288 --> 00:19:19.391
- If you follow the ring fortresses,
- 00:19:19.491 --> 00:19:20.993
- You can follow the extent of harald's kingdom.
- 00:19:20.993 --> 00:19:22.961
- And we have ring fortresses in all the paths of denmark,
- 00:19:22.961 --> 00:19:26.531
- That is now denmark.
- 00:19:26.531 --> 00:19:27.866
- We have to imagine that, in the middle of the 10th century,
- 00:19:27.866 --> 00:19:30.235
- Denmark had at least the reach that it has now,
- 00:19:30.235 --> 00:19:34.039
- Only going further south.
- 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.174
- His kingdom would also have reached to the southern part of
- 00:19:36.174 --> 00:19:41.013
- What is now sweden, called scania.
- 00:19:41.013 --> 00:19:43.382
- We have at least one ring fortress over there.
- 00:19:43.382 --> 00:19:46.084
- And then he had dominion over at least part of norway.
- 00:19:46.084 --> 00:19:49.021
- He wasn't the king of northern norway.
- 00:19:49.021 --> 00:19:50.756
- - right.
- 00:19:50.756 --> 00:19:52.124
- - but he would have had dominion over a part of southern norway.
- 00:19:52.124 --> 00:19:53.925
- - was it the biggest viking kingdom of the time?
- 00:19:53.925 --> 00:19:56.895
- - it was in his day, yeah.
- 00:19:56.895 --> 00:19:59.398
- But harald does something else.
- 00:19:59.398 --> 00:20:01.500
- He's not just the conqueror.
- 00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:03.101
- He's probably the guy laying the foundations for the later kings,
- 00:20:03.101 --> 00:20:07.072
- Like his son and his grandson, sweyn and cnut.
- 00:20:07.072 --> 00:20:10.175
- He lays the foundation and enables them to travel to
- 00:20:10.175 --> 00:20:15.213
- England and create the north sea empire,
- 00:20:15.213 --> 00:20:17.316
- Which is the biggest viking empire in the whole viking age.
- 00:20:17.316 --> 00:20:20.719
- It probably wouldn't have been possible if harald had not done
- 00:20:20.719 --> 00:20:25.457
- The ground work.
- 00:20:25.457 --> 00:20:26.692
- - how long did bluetooth's legacy last?
- 00:20:26.692 --> 00:20:29.261
- - well, his legacy very much lasts up until today.
- 00:20:29.261 --> 00:20:35.500
- Because our region, our monarch in power today, margrethe ii,
- 00:20:35.600 --> 00:20:41.907
- Our queen, is actually related by blood to harald and gorm
- 00:20:41.907 --> 00:20:47.412
- 1,000 years ago.
- 00:20:47.412 --> 00:20:48.580
- - wow, 1,000 years.
- 00:20:48.580 --> 00:20:49.815
- - 40 to 50 generations.
- 00:20:49.815 --> 00:20:51.583
- - why should king bluetooth's name be remembered?
- 00:20:51.583 --> 00:20:55.220
- - he was not just a warrior.
- 00:20:55.887 --> 00:20:57.089
- He was a builder.
- 00:20:57.089 --> 00:20:59.858
- He had a vision for the kingdom that he inherits that probably
- 00:20:59.858 --> 00:21:06.631
- Goes beyond just raiding and pillaging.
- 00:21:06.631 --> 00:21:10.602
- I think he wants to put things into system.
- 00:21:10.602 --> 00:21:13.205
- He wants to make sure that his family has the dominion over
- 00:21:13.205 --> 00:21:18.710
- This kingdom, not just when he dies,
- 00:21:18.710 --> 00:21:21.313
- But when his grandchildren die.
- 00:21:21.313 --> 00:21:23.281
- He wants to put things in order, i think,
- 00:21:23.281 --> 00:21:26.385
- Perhaps another level than his contemporary kings.
- 00:21:26.385 --> 00:21:29.421
- - i think he did a really good job.
- 00:21:29.421 --> 00:21:31.022
- - the fact that we are speaking of him today, 1,000 years after,
- 00:21:31.022 --> 00:21:36.528
- There's a reason that he was chosen to the bluetooth
- 00:21:36.528 --> 00:21:39.598
- Technology.
- 00:21:39.598 --> 00:21:41.066
- - how do you say his name in danish?
- 00:21:41.066 --> 00:21:43.802
- - if i were a viking, i would probably call him
- 00:21:43.802 --> 00:21:48.874
- [strong danish accent] harald, something like that.
- 00:21:48.874 --> 00:21:49.941
- - [tries to imitate]
- 00:21:49.941 --> 00:21:52.310
- - but today, in modern danish, we called him harald.
- 00:21:52.310 --> 00:21:54.946
- [modern danish accent] - [tries to imitate]
- 00:21:54.946 --> 00:21:56.848
- - harald blĂĄtand.
- 00:21:56.848 --> 00:21:58.483
- - [tries to imitate] - i was going to say,
- 00:21:58.483 --> 00:22:00.018
- "that's pretty good." but that was actually pretty bad.
- 00:22:00.018 --> 00:22:01.586
- [laughing] - harald.
- 00:22:01.586 --> 00:22:03.288
- Harald?
- 00:22:03.288 --> 00:22:04.089
- - yeah. - blĂĄtand.
- 00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:05.490
- - yeah, that was good.
- 00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:06.892
- - blĂĄtand.- blĂĄtand, yeah, yeah.
- 00:22:06.892 --> 00:22:08.493
- - that's how i do it.
- 00:22:08.493 --> 00:22:09.261
- Jacob, thank you, man.
- 00:22:09.261 --> 00:22:10.562
- It was awesome.
- 00:22:10.562 --> 00:22:11.062
- - pleasure.
- 00:22:11.062 --> 00:22:12.664
- - after bluetooth's conversion, he did everything in his power
- 00:22:13.965 --> 00:22:17.536
- To spread his adopted faith throughout his kingdom
- 00:22:17.536 --> 00:22:20.672
- Peacefully, a dramatic contrast to the predominantly violent
- 00:22:20.672 --> 00:22:25.844
- Nature of the viking culture.
- 00:22:25.844 --> 00:22:27.446
- Today, there might not be much remaining of bluetooth,
- 00:22:28.613 --> 00:22:31.650
- Other than the tech that bears his name.
- 00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:33.819
- But in jelling, denmark's ancient capital,
- 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:37.589
- Bluetooth left behind something incredibly significant.
- 00:22:37.589 --> 00:22:44.296
- - behind me are what seem to be just two big rocks,
- 00:22:45.397 --> 00:22:48.266
- But they are so much more than that.
- 00:22:48.266 --> 00:22:51.403
- They're actually some of the oldest surviving historical
- 00:22:51.403 --> 00:22:54.806
- Records in all of europe.
- 00:22:54.806 --> 00:22:56.408
- This one, the smaller of the two,
- 00:22:56.408 --> 00:22:58.477
- Was first commissioned by harald's father, gorm the old,
- 00:22:58.477 --> 00:23:01.713
- In the early 10th century.
- 00:23:01.713 --> 00:23:04.382
- You see, gorm really loved his wife,
- 00:23:05.217 --> 00:23:07.719
- So much so that when she passed away, he really hit rock bottom.
- 00:23:07.719 --> 00:23:14.292
- As a gesture of his great love for her,
- 00:23:15.193 --> 00:23:17.596
- He cut out this boulder and engraved their love story on
- 00:23:17.596 --> 00:23:20.966
- This rock.
- 00:23:20.966 --> 00:23:21.967
- You got to admit, that's pretty romantic.
- 00:23:21.967 --> 00:23:24.803
- [vikings crying]
- 00:23:24.803 --> 00:23:26.571
- So, when gorm the old becomes gorm the dead,
- 00:23:26.571 --> 00:23:29.708
- Harald raised his own stone, a much bigger stone.
- 00:23:29.708 --> 00:23:33.512
- And this one, this one's different because it's
- 00:23:33.512 --> 00:23:37.682
- Undeniably christian.
- 00:23:37.682 --> 00:23:40.552
- Bluetooth really wanted the world to remember his legacy is
- 00:23:40.552 --> 00:23:44.689
- Uniting denmark and norway, and making them christian,
- 00:23:44.689 --> 00:23:49.294
- So much so that he literally had it inscribed in stone.
- 00:23:49.294 --> 00:23:54.900
- On one side, it says, and i quote,
- 00:23:55.734 --> 00:23:58.370
- "king harald ordered these stones in memory of gorm,
- 00:23:58.370 --> 00:24:01.273
- His father, and in memory of thyrvé, his mother; that harald,
- 00:24:01.273 --> 00:24:04.376
- Who won for himself all of denmark and norway and made the
- 00:24:04.376 --> 00:24:08.613
- Danes christian." on the other side is an image of the
- 00:24:08.613 --> 00:24:13.118
- Victorious christ, one of the first christian images in
- 00:24:13.118 --> 00:24:16.221
- Scandinavian history.
- 00:24:16.221 --> 00:24:17.889
- This stone is so important to the story of this country that
- 00:24:17.889 --> 00:24:21.326
- It's considered the birth certificate of denmark.
- 00:24:21.326 --> 00:24:24.663
- While this rock is a symbol of christianity in europe,
- 00:24:24.663 --> 00:24:28.266
- It's not the only symbol that has survived 1,000 years.
- 00:24:28.266 --> 00:24:31.469
- We're all pretty familiar with another one that comes from this
- 00:24:31.469 --> 00:24:34.906
- Time in history.
- 00:24:34.906 --> 00:24:36.441
- Now that i think of it, i can almost guarantee that you've
- 00:24:36.441 --> 00:24:39.644
- Seen the symbol before.
- 00:24:39.644 --> 00:24:40.879
- See, when they set out to design the logo for bluetooth
- 00:24:40.879 --> 00:24:43.949
- Technology, they took the ancient rune characters for
- 00:24:43.949 --> 00:24:47.118
- Bluetooth's initials, h and b, and then combined them.
- 00:24:47.118 --> 00:24:51.089
- Now, that's pretty neat.
- 00:24:51.089 --> 00:24:52.591
- - brian, have you heard of nickelback?
- 00:24:52.591 --> 00:24:56.294
- It's too terrible.
- 00:24:56.294 --> 00:24:58.163
- - not only did bluetooth make a lasting mark on history,
- 00:24:58.163 --> 00:25:02.133
- His name is literally inscribed on virtually every device on the
- 00:25:02.133 --> 00:25:07.572
- Planet.
- 00:25:07.572 --> 00:25:08.707
- There's no way he saw that coming.
- 00:25:08.707 --> 00:25:11.509
- Unifying all of scandinavia under christianity allowed his
- 00:25:11.610 --> 00:25:15.246
- Name to go down as one of the greatest connectors of all time.
- 00:25:15.246 --> 00:25:20.318
- And now his name and symbol are synonymously paired with the
- 00:25:20.418 --> 00:25:25.357
- Concept of uniting.
- 00:25:25.357 --> 00:25:28.793
- After king harald raised the stones in jelling, he came here,
- 00:25:30.028 --> 00:25:33.865
- To roskilde.
- 00:25:33.865 --> 00:25:35.233
- He was looking for a new place to keep an eye on his expanding
- 00:25:35.233 --> 00:25:38.069
- Kingdom.
- 00:25:38.069 --> 00:25:39.037
- Like in jelling, after his conversion,
- 00:25:39.037 --> 00:25:41.106
- The first thing he did was build a church.
- 00:25:41.106 --> 00:25:44.242
- Actually, he built a farm first because you can't do much with
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- Your expanding kingdom if you die of starvation.
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- - what are you planting?
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- - cows.
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- [cow moos] - you can't grow cows.
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- - [laughs] how are you supposed to get ground beef?
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- Dummy.
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- - but after that, you build a church.
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- Presiding over his massive empire wasn't all kicks and
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- Giggles.
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- - one, two--
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- - wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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- Boys, ask yourselves, "what would jesus do?"
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- - turn the other cheek?
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- - turn the other cheek means peace and love, unity.
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- Let's all be unified, right?
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- We're all christian here.
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- - he would be betrayed, backstabbed, and challenged.
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- But every time, he prevailed and forgave.
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- That's right, even after the rumors of his own son turning
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- Against him, he forgave because that's the christian
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- Thing to do.
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- When bluetooth finally died, that same son sent an army to
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- Collect bluetooth's body so that it could be buried right here,
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- In the church he built in roskilde.
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- What we have to remember is that the vikings were defined by
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- Power, what you could conquer or what you could take by force.
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- In contrast, bluetooth was defined by who he could unite.
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- His policies of tolerance and peace that happened after his
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- Conversion helped him unify his kingdom with the diplomacy that
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- Had never been seen before in viking culture.
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- It's pretty crazy how we never know what type of influence our
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- Lives might have on the future.
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- King harald literally had no idea,
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- No frame of reference at all, for what type of technology
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- Would bear his name a millennium into the future.
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- But because of the way this christian king conducted his
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- Life, he made it into our history books and, eventually,
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- Into our ears.
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- But history's kind of funny like that, isn't it?
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- Random lives, separated by time and distance, an ancient king,
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- A hollywood bombshell and two software engineers,
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- And somehow their stories all ended up connected.
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- It kind of makes me think about what other stories our lives
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- Might be a part of, who we're affecting not just now but in
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- The future.
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- We should all strive toward a legacy like king harald's,
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- Bringing unity in a divided world, being paired together,
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- Staying connected, perhaps even via bluetooth.
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- We'll see you next time.
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