Talk:Dragonstone

HET NOK UN MAHLaaN DROGGE ERei SULeyK SE ALDUIN VOKRii

After doing the runabout of sources, I may have a likely translation for this passage from the back of the Dragonstone.

Beyond a doubt, we know the following:

HET NOK UN HERE LIE [UN]

MAHLaaN DROGGE [MAHLaaN] [DROGGE]

ERei SULeyK SE [ERei] POWER [SE]

ALDUIN VOKRii ALDUIN [VOKRii]

While "MAHLaaN" is closest in appearance to "KULaaN", which means "Prince", "MAH" by itself means "Fall" or "Fell". "LaaN" then seems to be a masculine suffix of some description, since "KULaaS" is the feminine form. This drives me to the conclusion the "MAHLaaN" means "Fallen" or possibly "Defeated".

"DROGGE" seems to be composed of "DROG", meaning "Lord", and the suffix [-GE]. This is likely a pluralization, making it the word "Lords". In light of the purpose of the Dragonstone, being to mark the locations of the Dragons' Burial Mounds, this translation makes sense. It is marking the resting places of their "Fallen Lords", slain at the hands of Blades and Dragonborn of the past.

"VOKRii" is rather easily translater as being "VO" (opposite of) and Krii (Kill). The opposite of Kill is Resurrect or Revive.

So far, the translation looks like this: HERE LIE [UN] FALLEN LORDS [ERei] POWER [SE] ALDUIN REVIVES. Based on the purpose of the stone and its frame of reference in Skyrim's history, the rest can be filled in rather intuitively, leading me to suggest the following final translation:

HERE LIE OUR FALLEN LORDS UNTIL POWER OF ALDUIN REVIVES.

Or, more colloquially: "Here lie our fallen Lords, until the power of Alduin revives them."

70.92.155.203 04:48, December 9, 2011 (UTC)