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The image of Vikings in hornedhelmets is a myth—no excavated Viking helmet has horns. It spread from the 1876 premiere of Richard Wagner's operathe Ring cycle, when designer Carl Emil Doepler added horns to the male helmets.
Bluetooth is named after Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, the 10th-century Viking king who united Denmark and Norway—as the tech would unite PCs and phones. Its logo merges his initials in runes ᚼ and ᛒ. A placeholder name, it stuck. The nickname likely came from a dead, bluish tooth.
Greenland is mostly ice, yet its name means 'green land.' Around 982 the VikingErik the Red, exiled from Iceland for murder, founded a colony and chose an appealing name to lure settlers. The fjords he settled did green in summer. Around 985, 25 ships set out; 14 arrived.