After our two nights in Aarhus we drove to the hamlet of Strandby by the great Danish salt water lake, Limsfjord. We would stay five nights in the country home of Drs. Hans and Martha Aas of Duluth.
Originally built by the state in the late 1800’s after the government expropriated the estates of the largest landholders the Aas’s purchased the farm after graduating from the university in Aarhus back in the 1960’s. We bid on a stay at the farmstead at a benefit auction for the Bong Memorial Museum last year.
A couple days later our daughter and son-in-law came to visit for two nights before journeying on to Berlin and some sort of music festival.
Every night a small herd of cattle came by to pay us a visit just before their milking. This one made me wince since it looked ready to explode.
On our children’s second evening of their visit we took the kids for a stroll on the beach where we found a local fisherman.
Earlier that day we took them to visit Aalborg and the Viking cemetary where, from the 6th to the 12th century, ornery Viking stole each other’s headstones whenever some new Viking had to be buried.
 
It wasn’t only the Vikings that revered nautical themes. In the Kirke (church) of Strandby we found ships suspended from its 12th century ceiling. We found such ship models suspended from other Danish churches as well.
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