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Although his predecessors had accepted Christianity at the instigation of the Frankish Carolingian kings in 826, many Danes and other northerners were still heathens for centuries. Harald Bluetooth embraced Christianity around 960 or 965, but whether this was a purely political move or the result of an actual conversion on Harold's part is impossible to say. His son Sweyn (Forkbeard) was baptized along with the rest of the royal family, and given the name of the Holy Roman emperor Otto the GreatMagdeburg Otto I the Great ( 912 May 7, 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of Saxony, King of Germany and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor. While Charlemagne had been crowned emperor in 800, his. Harold was wounded in battle against the forces of his son and successor Sweyn. He is believed to have died on November 1st, 986, although 985 and 987 are also mentioned, and is best remembered for having erected a large runic stone at JellingThe Jelling stones are massive carved runic gravestones from the 10th century, found at Jelling in Denmark. The older of the two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra; the other was raised by their son, Harald Bluetoot: "Harold, king, bade these memorials to be made after Gorm, his father, and Thyra, his mother. The Harald who won the whole of Denmark and Norway and turned the Danes to Christianity."

(In Old Norse: Haraltr kunukr bath kaurua kubl thausi aft kurm fathur sin auk aft thaurui muthur sina sa haraltr ias sar uan tanmaurk ala auk nuruiak auk tani karthi kristna.)

Harold may have had three wives or consorts: Thora, Gunhilde and GyridGyrid was a Swedish princess. She was the daughter of Olof (II) Bjornsson and the sister of Styrbjorn Starke whom she accompanied to Denmark where she married Harold Bluetooth. (the niece of the Swedish king Eric the Victorious). He is believed to have had four children: Håkon, Sweyn, Gunhild and TyraTyra was the daughter of Harold Bluetooth and his third wife Gyrid. She married the disinherited Swedish prince Styrbjorn Starke and had the son Torkel Styrbjornsson, who had the daughter Gytha Thorkelsdottir. Gytha married Godwin, Earl of Wessex and had (who married Styrbjörn StarkeStyrbjorn Starke or Styrbjorn the Strong was the semi-legendary son of Olof (II) Bjornsson, and the nephew of Eric the Victorious. At his father's death, ca 980, Bjorn could claim greater right to the throne of Sweden, than Eric's own soon to be born son.).

The Bluetooth interface for wireless Personal Area Networks developed by Ericsson is named after Harold. The Bluetooth logo consists of the Nordic runes for his initials, H and B.

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