Skyrim talk:Old Hroldan Inn

Old Hroldan Inn and relations to Old H'roldan in High Rock

The Lore about Orsinium tells that "[the orcs and other goblin-ken] founded a small village and keep on an uninhabited mountain region close to Old H'roldan in High Rock […]", and this town became Orsinium. Maps and other references places Orsinium North by North West of Wayrest in High Rock, but the Old Hroldan Inn is sited close to the East border of The Reach in Skyrim.

One could of course think that the Old Hroldan Inn is just named after the High Rock Old H'roldan, but the book "Holdings of Jarl Gjalund" seems to indikate that Hroldan is an old name in the border area between the holds of The Reach and Whiterun. A wild speculation could be that Hroldan in The Reach was originally a "New Hroldan". The native Reachmen are after all Bretons like the High Rock natives, and the bretons driven from Old H'roldan in High Rock by the settlement of Orcs there had to move somewhere. The new Hroldan, having been there for so long, and with the location of old "Old H'roldan" partly forgotten by commoners, having been Orsinium for long, the newer settlement of Hroldan might have become a "new" Old Hroldan among common people, later even among scholars.

On the other hand, the TES5 Skyrim contemporary Old Hroldan might of course have been in what was considered High Rock at the time of the orsimer conquest of the area, and the contemporary Orsinium might not be in the exact same place as the first Orsinium either, as there are several hundreds of years between them.

Neither of these explanations seems particularily good to me, though. --MortenOSlash 10:01, 1 July 2012 (UTC)