Hanging Gardens

Summary
Hanging Gardens was a travel guide to an unknown location. The book was written in Dwemeris (the language of the Dwemer), and translated to Aldmeris (the language of the Aldmer). The author and translator of the book, Wasten Coridale, stated that some fragments in Aldmeris are readable, but could be enough for a scholar of Aldmeris to translate parts of other Dwemer books.

Quests

 * Mystery of the Dwarves

Morrowind

 * Nchuleftingth, Lower Levels on a desk (Part of the Mystery of the Dwarves quest)

Oblivion

 * Arcane University Arch Mage's Quarters.
 * Imperial Temple District Hagaer's House, upstairs; top right hand shelf.
 * Ayleid Ruin Atatar, in a bookshelf.
 * Imperial City, Arcane University - Mystic Archives (Upper Level)

Skyrim

 * Can be bought from Urag gro-Shub in The Arcanaeum, College of Winterhold (Does not count for Fetch me that Book!).
 * Kagrenzel - From Stony Creek Cave (use level 2 or 3 Whirlwind Sprint from up on a wall to get up waterfall).
 * Largashbur - On the ground at the bottom of a bookshelf inside a wooden hut WNW of the Longhouse.
 * Bleak Falls Barrow - Chest near the Wordwall.
 * Broken Helm Hollow.
 * Cradlecrush Rock - Chest.
 * Lost Valkygg - Chest.
 * Brinewater Grotto
 * Dragontooth Crater - Chest.
 * Volunruud -in the chest that is alongside Kvenel the Tongue.

Content
''Hanging Gardens  of Wasten Coridale ''

''This book was apparently written in Dwemer and translated to Aldmeris. Only fragments of the Aldmeris is readable, but it may be enough for a scholar of Aldmeris to translate fragments of other Dwemer books.''

...guide Altmer-Estrial led with foot-flames for the town-center where lay dead the quadrangular gardens...

...asked the foundations and chains and vessels their naming places...

...why they did not use solid sound to teach escape from the Earth Bones nor nourished them with frozen flames...

....the word I shall have once written of, this "art" our lesser cousins speak of when their admirable ignorance...

...but neither words nor experience cleanses the essence of the strange and terrible ways of defying our ancestors' transient rules.

The translation ends with a comment in Dwemer in a different hand, which you can translate as follows: *NOTE*

"Put down your ardent cutting-globes, Nbthld. Your Aldmeris has the correct words, but they cannot be properly misinterpreted.

Trivia

 * In the version, this says "which you can translate" instead of "which you may be translated as follows"

Appearances


Die hängenden Gärten Los jardines colgantes de Wasten Coridale Les Jardins suspendus, d'Abandole Coridale Висячие сады