Fell (or Fell í Sléttuhlíð) was a farm and church site in Sléttuhlíð in

Skagafjörður Skagafjörður () is a deep fjord and its valley in northern Iceland. Location Skagafjörður, the fjord, is about 40 km long and 15 km wide, situated between Tröllaskagi to the east and the Skagi, Skagi Peninsula to the west. Ther ...

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

. It was previously a

parsonage A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, pa ...

, but it was shut down in 1891. Fell's current church was built in 1881–1882. The most well-known priest in Fell was Hálfdan Narfason, who was said to be very skilled in magic. He died in Fell in 1568 and had at that time been the longest serving priest there. Later, Erlendur Guðmundsson (died 1641) and his son Guðmundur Erlendsson (born around 1595, died 1670), were priests in Fell for a little over 80 consecutive years from 1585 to 1668. Quite a lot is recorded of Guðmundur's poetry, including psalms and other spiritual poetry, historical poems, commemorative poems, and more. The folklorist

Ólafur Davíðsson Olafur Davidsson (26 January 1862 – 6 September 1903), Icelandic: ''Ólafur Davíðsson'', was an Icelandic natural scientist, ethnographer and folklore collector. Biography Davidsson was born on 26 January 1862 at Fell in Sléttuhlíð. He was ...

was born in Fell in 1863.

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{{Authority control Populated places in Northwestern Region (Iceland) Skagafjörður Churches in Iceland