Fell

Fell

“Fell” (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

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Famous quotes containing the word fell:

    “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have spent
    This night!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
    What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
    At one fell swoop?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Had I but time—as this fell sergeant, Death,
    Is strict in his arrest—O, I could tell you—
    But let it be.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)