Mælifell (Skagafjörður)

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| name = Mælifell

| native_name_lang = is

| settlement_type = Farm and church site

| image_skyline = Mælifell. (4558899924).jpg

| image_alt = a sepia-toned picture of a farmhouse and small church

| image_caption = Mælifell around 1900

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| mapframe-coordinates = {{coord|65|26|30.354|N|19|20|50.687|W}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Iceland

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = Skagafjörður

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Mælifell is a farm, church site, and former vicarage in interior, western Skagafjörður, Iceland. The farm is at the foot of Mælifellshnjúkur, one of the best-known and most prominent of Skagafjörður’s mountains.{{Cite web |date=2016-03-06 |title=Mælifellskirkja |trans-title=Mælifell church (1925) |url=http://kirkjukort.net/kirkjur/maelifellskirkja_0330.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306085001/http://kirkjukort.net/kirkjur/maelifellskirkja_0330.html |archive-date=2016-03-06 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=kirkjukort.net |language=is}} West of the mountain is Mælifellsdalur valley, through which there used to be a well-traveled road between northern and southern Iceland onto the Kjalvegur road and Stórisandur.{{Cite web |date=2018-11-09 |title=Guide to F35 - Kjölur in Iceland - Northbound.is |url=https://www.northbound.is/blog/245/guide-to-f35-kjolur |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Northbound |language=en}}

One of the most well-known priests who served in Mælifell parish was Arngrímur lærði (“the learned”) Jónsson.{{Cite web |title=Arngrímur Jónsson |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15098 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=www.litencyc.com |language=en}} There is now a little stone church in Mælifell that was consecrated in 1925.