I have a dictionary in my PC that says Fell would be Scot. and N.England  dialect for hill or moor, but also there is in Legend - Scottish Legend - a place of a sort of Spiritual Purgatory - called the
"Whinny Muir" or thorny moor  where you soul goes to be proven if you done well or ill in life.
And let us not forget "Killarney's Lakes and Fells" surely they too are legendary.
I believe we would have to go both North and East of my county - Cheshire - to hear this word used unless we have no fells to speak of and therefore do not use the word.
Perhaps it is but lately consigned to poetry - we could revive it
Kveðja
Patricia
 
http://www.scotscommunity.com/BOOKS/POETRY/A%20Lyke-Wake%20Dirge.htm
 
Verses regarding the "Whinny Muir" for those interested.
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred and Grace Hatton
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:05 AM
Subject: [norse_course] fell

Fell is moorland, see "mýrlendi" "fjall or fjöll" we name Mountains.
But Icelandic "Fell [FeDL]" are Rocky Hills or smaller than
mountains: "fjöll".

Hi Blanc,
I finally got a chance to look up fell in English.  Gordon had translated
fjall to English as fell.  In my big English dictionary it says  a fell is a
moorland or barren or rocky hillside.

In American English, one rarely encounters the word moorland, but in the
English of Great Britain, there seem to be very many words for different
sorts of moorlands.
Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa