Why this ride
From Løgstør it runs 280 km to Løgstør; allow about 4 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj, Fyrkat and back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Aggersborg and Fyrkat starting at Løgstør
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 280 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Aggersborg
Aggersborg is the giant of the Danish ring forts, and it is hard to appreciate until you see how much of it you cannot see. The circle, about 240 metres across, was twice the width of Fyrkat, with twelve gates, a rampart of earth and timber, and about forty-eight longhouses inside, set out in the same regular pattern of four-house groups. It was built around 980, in the reign of Harald Bluetooth, on a high bank above the Limfjord at one of its narrowest crossings, and it is thought to have controlled the water route through northern Jutland. A medieval church now stands on the site, and a section of the rampart is visible, along with markers showing where the gates and houses were.
Read the complete Aggersborg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Aggersborg is where the day begins. Next is The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj.
2. The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj
On the small, flat island of Mors in the Limfjord, the cliffs are not made of chalk or granite but of a pale grey-white clay, laid down in the sea about fifty-five million years ago. This is the moler, a deposit of diatom earth interleaved with hundreds of thin layers of volcanic ash, and it is one of the best places in the world to find fossils from the early Eocene. Fish, insects, birds and plants have been found here, beautifully preserved, including the bony fish that give the site its name.
Read the complete The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fyrkat.
3. Fyrkat
Around the year 980, Harald Bluetooth, king of the Danes, built a ring of fortresses across his kingdom, and Fyrkat is the best-preserved of them. It is a perfect circle of earth and timber rampart about 120 metres across, with four gates at the compass points and streets crossing in the middle, and inside the ring, sixteen longhouses arranged in groups of four around a square. Tree-ring dating of the timbers points to the early 980s, and the neat plan and the way it echoes the other ring forts at Trelleborg and Aggersborg suggest a single royal design. Why the forts were built is still argued over, though they probably combined military, administrative and royal power at a time when Harald was uniting Denmark and bringing in Christianity.
Read the complete Fyrkat write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach Fyrkat. Next is back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj.
4. back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj, late in the day. Next is Aggersborg.
5. Aggersborg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aggersborg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Aggersborg. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Aggersborg to The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj
Aggersborg → The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj to Fyrkat
The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj → Fyrkat is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fyrkat to back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj
Fyrkat → back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj to Aggersborg
back through The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfj → Aggersborg is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.