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'HARALD BLUETOOTH' MEDIEVAL TREASURE FOUNDDick Hanscom forwarded this BBC News article about an interesting new find in Germany. Thanks also to Andy Singer and Arthur Shippee. -Editor
 Treasure linked to the reign of 10th Century Danish King Harald Bluetooth has been dug up in northern Germany. An amateur archaeologist and a 13-year-old boy found a silver coin on the Baltic island of Rügen in January when scanning a field with metal detectors. They found braided necklaces, a Thor's hammer, brooches, rings and about 600 coins, probably buried in the 980s. "This trove is the biggest single discovery of Bluetooth coins in the southern Baltic sea region and is therefore of great significance," said lead archaeologist Michael Schirren.  Harald Bluetooth was born a Viking and is credited with unifying Denmark and introducing Christianity there during his reign. The king was immortalised by Nordic technology firms when they embedded their wireless "Bluetooth" technology in digital gadgets. To read the complete article, see:  Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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