ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses explicitly on the literature of "insideness" and "outsideness", a literature that draws heavily from semiotics; it then analyzes the tourist landscape of Thy, contrasting outsider and insider views of the landscape with the help of excerpts from interviews conducted in the area in 2005. In Thy, the contrasting meanings of places to insiders and outsiders is palpable. Insiders see the Limfjord as the east-west road of Danish history, the land that borders the Limfjord as inscribed with the history of Danish agriculture, the bluffs as the locus where God and life connect, and the heath and sea as enigmatic of the long struggle with nature for survival. Geographical scale is critical to the construction of meaning in that meaning is transitory across scale. Objects and place have both "insider" and "outsider" meanings and each of these two forms of meaning does not preclude the other.
