Úlfarsfell () is a mountain in the municipality of

Mosfellsbær Mosfellsbær (, colloquially Mosó) is a town in south-west Iceland, east of the country's capital, Reykjavík. The coat of arms of the municipality is a tightly-knotted triquetra, a symbol often used in Celtic knotwork and strongly associated ...

in the Reykjavík metropolitan area. It is 296 meters high. The mountain slopes have been subject to extensive forestry. Úlfarsfell is mentioned in the written work Hítardalsbók from 1367 and in the land registry from 1704 by

Árni Magnússon Árni Magnússon (; 13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection. Early life and education Árni was born in 1663 at Kvennabrekka in Dalasýsl ...

and

Páll Vídalín Páll is a name primarily of Icelandic and Faroese origins. Notable people with the name include: * Páll Bálkason (died 1231), Hebridean lord who was an ally of Olaf the Black * Páll Gíslason (1924–2004), Icelandic medical practitioner and ...

. The name of the mountain, and the nearby river Úlfarsá, likely comes from a settler named ''Úlfar,'' which was born by at least four settlers according to Landnáma, the book of settlers. The mountain currently hosts television and radio transmitters for the Reykjavik area, after transmissions were moved from the former Vatnsendi site.

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