Found out what my Skyrim character's made up name means in real world languages today. XD

So I make up this funny thing in my personal story/lore for elder scrolls where my dragonborn character becomes worshipped as a new deity and 10th divine to the nords.

I wanted something that sounded like Talos but with a Nordic feel to it instead of Roman/Imperial, so I wrote a list of about a hundred syllables and finally decided on using the name "Herjeim" for my Skyrim character when he becomes a deity.

Turns out the word means "goodness gracious" in German. XD

There's also a Swedish name Herje, im just means "in the". Herje is a variant form of Harje, which itself is a modern form of hargeir, with har meaning army, or warrior or leader, and geir being an old norse word for spear. Exists in the modern English word garlic, literally meaning gar leek, or spear shaped leek.

Anyways I thought that was cool so I decided that my name Herjeim is a name made by the nords in their ancient languaged meaning the warrior/champion/leader who speared Alduin for the people of Skyrim. Like the leading champion spear of the Nords or something. XD

I have too much fun with this. DX

The Nords doesn't actually follow the Imperial pantheon, so he wouldn't be a 10th divine to the Nords.

They do though.

Not even the Stormcloaks worship the divines by their old names (Jhunal, Kyne, Stuhn)

I sometime wonder if Bethesda ever realises what their names mean. I suspect not. "Helm" is an old english word for "helmet" so Windhelm literally means "windy helmet"!

Old English? I figured that was still occasionally being used...

Helm is also part of a ship. Specifically the steering mechanism.


I also noticed a lot of transliteration. Hjaalmarch would be hj?lmarch. Which is translating to "helper march." Hj?l meaning helm, hj?lp meaning "help", hence "helper march."


A lot of things in Skyrim are modeled after Nordic countries and languages, including old Norse.


As an aside, I found an npc in Tighten in Elder Scrolls Online named Alskar. ?lskar means "to love."


And whoever said they don't use the old Nord names for the divines is full of crap. They use both, and Kyne is most common.


Edit, all my language references here are to Swedish.