Any country which takes itself seriously ought to know about its own past.
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, quoted in Stine Wiell, 1996, A letter from Line: the Flensburg antiquities and the Danish-Prussian/Austrian war of 1864. Antiquity 70:270.
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