Sounds familiar?

"(...) that the people of Amioun \[spelled Ameun\] were notoriously the most obstinate of all the mountain tribes, so much so, that a proverb existed, that it took a sharp axe to split the skull of an Amiouni".

Memoirs of Antonius Amieuney, 1860

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