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The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen

The Royal Library (Black Diamond)

Slotsholmen · National Library · Free

Every Danish thought is filed here. I come for the old reading room and the fact that the nation keeps its soul on a shelf.

The national library — a black-granite waterfront wing bolted onto the 1906 original, holding Denmark's memory, from rune stones to the diaries of Kierkegaard.

— Freja, The Historian
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