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:

    “As the son straddled
    the husband’s back
    when he fell at her feet,
    the housewife,
    though burnt by certain anger,
    began to laugh.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”
    —William M. Evarts (1818–1901)

    “What is it then to me, if impious War,
    Arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends,
    Do with his smirched complexion all fell feats
    Enlinked to waste and desolation?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)