The Danevirke in Popular Culture
As a symbol of Danish autonomy from Germany, Dannevirke was adopted as the title of several Danish journals during the nineteenth century. The most notable of these was published by Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig from 1816–19.
The town of Dannevirke in New Zealand was founded by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish settlers in 1872, when the Danevirke's loss to the Germans was a recent and very painful memory.
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