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CHAPTER XX. 
THE MARINE LAGOONS AND SALT-MARSHES OF WEST 
JUTLAND. 
The coast of West Jutland, sandy and low-lying, is 
fringed with “ fjords ”—so-called on the map. But 
that name is misleading, since the Danish lagoons bear 
no similitude to the deep waterways of Norway with 
which the word fjord has become associated. Denmark, 
indeed, is the very antithesis of Norway, and her fjords 
should rather be designated “ broads ”—bredning in 
Danish. 
They include wastes of mudflat, sand, and shallow of 
such vast area that the weak tides of Jutland rarely 
penetrate beyond a few deeper channels—hence land- 
grasses and herbage clothe islet and salt-spit. From the 
sea outside, the broads are only separated by those 
remarkable revler —narrow ranges of dreariest sand- 
dunes, some of which stretch straight for twenty or 
thirty miles, yet barely five hundred yards in breadth. 
A glance at the map will show that the chief of these 
is the Liimfjord, a hundred miles long, which practically 
insulates North Jutland—sometimes entirely, according 
as the sea-channel of Thyboron happens to be open or 
silted up. Southward lie the Yemb and Ringkjobing 
fjords, and that north of Fano. 
