The Ylläs fell in Finland

Fell (from the Old Norse fjall, 'mountain') is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in parts of England and Scandinavia. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1016x344, 78 KB) Ylläs mountain in Finnish Lapland. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1016x344, 78 KB) Ylläs mountain in Finnish Lapland. ... Ylläs from Äkäslompolo Ylläs, or in Finnish Yllästunturi, is a 718 m high fell in Finland, Lapland. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe. ...

England

In Northern England, especially in the Lake District, the word fell originally referred to an area of uncultivated high ground used as common grazing. This meaning is found in the names of various breeds of livestock bred for life on the uplands, such as Rough Fell sheep and fell ponies. It is also found in many place names across the North of England, often attached to the name of a community; thus Seathwaite Fell, for example, would be the common grazing land used by the farmers of Seathwaite. A sign on the A1 road near London points to The NORTH. Such signs continue for the length of the road. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ... Grazing is the regular consumption of part of one organism without killing it by another organism. ... Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ... The Rough Fell is an upland breed of sheep, originating in the UK. It is common on its native mountain and moorland farms, its distribution embracing a large proportion of South Cumbria, parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, North Lancashire and, more recently, upland parts of Devon. ... N.B. A fell pony may also to refer to a particularly evil specimen of the general all-purpose horse-young. ... Seathwaite Fell is an area of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. ...

Today, however, the most common usage of the word fell is to refer to any one of the mountains and hills of the Lake District. This meaning tends to overlap with the previous one, especially where place names are concerned: in particular, names that originally referred to grazing areas tend to be applied to hilltops, as is the case with the aforementioned Seathwaite Fell. In other cases the reverse is true: for instance, the name of Wetherlam, in the Coniston Fells, though understood to refer to the mountain as a whole, strictly speaking refers to the summit; the slopes have names such as Tilberthwaite High Fell, Low Fell and Above Beck Fells. A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... A hill in Hungary with a hillside vintage garden For the landform that extends less than 600 metres above the surrounding terrain and that is smaller than a mountain, see the mountain article. ... Wetherlam (2502 ft) is a mountain in the English Lake District. ... The Coniston Fells as a single unit - seen from Helvellyn. ...

As the most mountainous region of England, the Lake District is the area most closely associated with the sport of fell running, which takes its name from the fells of the district. Fellwalking is also the term used locally for the activity known in the rest of Great Britain as hillwalking. Fell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. ... Hillwalking or fellwalking is the recreational practice of hiking in mountainous terrain. ...

Scandinavia and Finland

In Scandinavia, a fell (fjell in Norwegian, fjäll in Swedish, tunturi in Finnish; "tunturi" is of the same Samish origin as the word tundra.) is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history. Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ... A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity and undergoes internal deformation. ...

A famous example in Finland is Korvatunturi, the legendary homeplace of Joulupukki, the Finnish Santa. Korvatunturi is a fell on the border of Finland and Russia. ... Joulupukki is the Finnish name for Santa Claus. ...

See also

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• List of fells in the Lake District

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... This is a list of fells, hills, mountains, groups of mountains and subsidiary summits and tops in the Lake District, England. ...

References

Wainwright, A. [1960] (2003). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book Four: The Southern Fells. London: Francis Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2230-4. Alfred Wainwright (1907 – 1991) was best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. ... The Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the English Lake District. ...