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The discovery of a Viking-age fortress in Denmark has shed new light on
a network of military sites built by the 10th-century Danish king
Harald Bluetooth, according to archaeologists.
Bluetooth — for whom the eponymous digital network technology is named —
is credited with building several large, circular fortresses, or "ring
forts," around Denmark in the 970s and 980s, as he unified the unruly Viking clans of the region into a centralized kingdom.
Until a few years ago, the sites of four such ring forts were known,
and in the decades since they were found, debate has raged among Danish
historians about these structures' purpose. [See More Photos of the Viking-Age Fortress in Denmark]
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