(Friend says that in old english you would've declined all the bits of an apposition also - something like "my friend's Sue's cat" rather than "my friend Sue's cat" )
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It might be dative, because it implicitly means "in honor of" or "made for" - I don't know the proper English word, but it's called "Widmung". Same as the Bundestag saying "dem deutschen Volke". It doesn't state who it is, but whom it is for.
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Yip yip - it happens in some other languages as well that dedications get put in the dative. (I'd guess likely a general trait of indo-european languages that still have a dative case?)
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