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Golden horns
stolen from Danish museum
Two golden horns,
replicas of original Danish artefacts, have been stolen two hundred years after
their originals met a similar fate.
According to Bloomberg, the horns were stolen from the Museum of Jelling,
located in southern Denmark, at 04:30 local time.
Commissioned in the 19th century by King Frederik VII, the gold-plated replicas
were based on drawings of the originals and were on loan from the Danish
National Museum.
"This robbery has a tremendous effect on Danes, who all know of the robbery of
the originals in 1802," said the head of the national museum, Carsten Larsen, in
a telephone interview with Bloomberg Television.
The original solid gold horns were discovered separately in a Danish field, and
date from 400 B.C.
Famously stolen in the 19th century, the horns were melted down into jewellery
and coins in what is considered Denmark's most notorious robbery.
The theft of the original horns is described in the historic Danish poem The
Golden Horns by Adam Oehlenschlaeger and studied by Danish schoolchildren.
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