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
Verses regarding the "Whinny Muir" for those
interested.
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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