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Fjeld

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Fjeld 

a type of mountain massif on the Scandinavian Peninsula that bears evidence of preglacial planation and of exaration. The surface of the fjelds consists of gently sloping uplands, covered with tundra vegetation and glaciers, that alternate with depressions containing numerous lakes and swamps.



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One can form some idea of the altitude of this barrier of ice when it is mentioned that from Hofdabrekka farm, which lies high up on a fjeld, one could not see Hjorleifshofdi opposite, which is a fell six hundred and forty feet in height; but in order to do so had to clamber up a mountain slope east of Hofdabrekka twelve hundred feet high.
 
 
 
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