Dictionary > Ahrolsedovah
Word[?]
4ROLSEDOV4
Ahrolsedovah
Word Type[?]
noun
Pronunciation[?]
/əˌrol sɛˈdo və/
Official Definition[?]
Whiterun
(Book, Holdings of Jarl Gjalund)
Expanded Definition[?]
n. Whiterun, lit. ‘hill of the dragon’
Usage[?]
Whiterun — Ahrolsedovah — The Jarl's Holding, with Plentiful Water and Pasturage.
(Book, Holdings of Jarl Gjalund)
Odahviing will come to your challenge. … He will not be able to resist your call, from the Hill of the Dovah itself... he will come.
(Paarthurnax, 000D2CF4)
Connotations[?]
If dragon in origin, likely refers to the geographical hill upon which Whiterun is built more so than the city itself.
Etymology[?]
Se compound of ahrol ‘hill’ and dovah ‘dragon’, lit. ‘hill of the dragon’.
Notes[?]
Paarthurnax refers to Whiterun as ‘the Hill of the Dovah’ (000D2CF4), indicating a dragon origin rather than an invention by Jarl Gjalund.
