fjeld

plural fjelds

1. geographyA rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.

   Almost every Norwegian farmer possesses some pasture-land high up in the fjeld, sometimes as much as twenty or thirty miles distant from his homestead.

   1847, Alfred Smith, Henry Warren, “A SEATER COTTAGE ON THE FILLE FJELD”, in Sketches in Norway and Sweden, London: Thomas Maclean, via National Library of Norway, unnumbered page