I've always been curious about why the purported "left hand" elves of Yokuda were called that. I always just assumed that they were stereotyped as being left-handed by the Yokudan humans because the Yokudan men thought they were terrible swordsman (two left hands = svcking at sword dancing).
Today I had a random thought, maybe they're called Left Hand Elves because some pompous, ego/geocentric Altmer looked at a map and Yokuda is on the left-hand side. So, therefore, the inferior mer who dwelt there were simply and crassly called Left Hand Elves.
What are the current thoughts on this? Am I just ignorant and have missed the already deciphered meaning of the title?
Now that I've put my opinion down in words, I actually like both of my explanations.