Re: fell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Fred and Grace Hatton"
<hatton@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>