Editing Limfjord (section)

==In literature==
===Limgrim legend===
According to myth, a woman (in some versions a ''[[jötunn]]'') gave birth to a pig, [[Limgrim]], which soon grew so big that its bristles could be seen over the treetops. It strolled around and dug channels in the ground. One day it reached the sea and water broke in. This would have been at the eastern inlet of the Limfjord, at [[Hals, Denmark|Hals]]. The legend is also handed down in a medieval ballad with a Christian tint. In the ballad, the pig is summoned to a [[Thing (assembly)|Thing]] by peasants to pay for the damage to their crops, and it is sentenced to the [[breaking wheel]].<ref>August F. Schmidt: [http://www.thistedmuseum.dk/Historisk%20%C3%85rbog/%C3%85rgang%201929/Schmidt,%20August%20F.%20%20%20Lidt%20om%20Limfjorden.pdf Lidt om Limfjorden : Limgrises Vise; Smaaøer og Holme] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308171831/http://www.thistedmuseum.dk/Historisk%20%C3%85rbog/%C3%85rgang%201929/Schmidt%2C%20August%20F.%20%20%20Lidt%20om%20Limfjorden.pdf |date=2012-03-08 }} (''A little about the Limfjord : Limgrise's ballad, small islets and holms''), Historisk Årbog for Thisted amt 1929 (in Danish)</ref>

The state environmental surveillance vessel ''Limgrim'', based at Skive, is named after the legend.

===Limfjord poets===
A number of writers of the [[Modern Breakthrough]] period (1870-1890) and the next decades came from the area around the Limfjord and often used it as a lyrical motif, or a setting for their prose. These include [[Jens Peter Jacobsen]] of Thisted, [[Johan Skjoldborg]] of [[Hannæs]], [[Jakob Knudsen]] of [[Aggersborg]], [[Jeppe Aakjær]] and [[Marie Bregendahl]] of [[Fjends]], [[Nobel Prize]] laureate [[Johannes Vilhelm Jensen]] of [[Farsø]] and his sister [[Thit Jensen]]. [[Thøger Larsen]] of [[Lemvig]] belonged to the symbolism of the 1920s. [[Johannes Buchholtz]] in [[Struer, Denmark|Struer]] was a prose writer and his home was a meeting point for many of the Limfjord writers. The house is still kept up by the Struer Museum, which allows visitors. Jeppe Aakjær's farm Jenle close to [[Skive, Denmark|Skive]], Johan Skjoldborg's house in [[Øsløs]], and the Johannes V. Jensen Museum in Farsø are also open to the public. [[Erik Bertelsen]] of [[Harboør]] is best known for the song ''Blæsten går frisk over Limfjordens vande'' ('The Wind Goes Fresh over the Limfjord's Waters'), a much-used "local anthem".

The later ones of these Limfjord writers, along with a few others, formed the [[Jutland Movement]], which revolted against the symbolism of the early 20th century. Instead, they wrote social realistic prose, often about poor and exploited people in the countryside, who were a part of Danish society little known to the establishment in Copenhagen.<ref>[http://www.jeppeaakjaer.dk/den_jyske_bevaegelse.htm The Jutland movement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926181143/http://www.jeppeaakjaer.dk/den_jyske_bevaegelse.htm |date=2013-09-26 }}, jeppeaakjaer.dk (in Danish)</ref>