To lighten it up, here are some excepts from the greatest tome in Tamriel, Butha Sunhous' "Jokes"
"How is your wife," asked Zalither.
"She's in bed with laryngitis," replied Harlyth.
"Is that Argonian bastard back in town again?"
An elderly Breton met with an contemporary of his at a guild meeting. "Harryston, old man, I wanted to express my sympathy. I hear that you buried your wife last week."
"Had to, old boy," replied Harryston. "Dead, you know."
Why was the Sentinel army so useless during the War of Betony?
The cannons were too heavy, so all three garbage scows sunk.
What does a new Sentinel private learn first as a combat technique?
How to retreat.
What is the thinnest book in the world?
Redguard Heroes of the War of Betony.
A Dark Elf man killed his wife after catching her making love with another man.
When the magistrate asked him why he killed her instead of her lover, the man replied, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different man every week."
Here's hoping miss Sunhous has some more material for us in Skyrim, though she would probably be dead there may be a dusty volume laying around somewhere. Until then, lets make our own. I came up with this one a little bit ago and its defintely groan-worthy:
Dovahkiin walks into a tavern and sits down at the bar
the bartender says "what can I get you, dragon-born?"
Dovahkiin shouts "JUS WAH TAH!"
EDIT: If you'd like to read them all, you can find them on the UESPWiki http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Jokes