Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5349716-20130425180733/@comment-24756536-20140414201758

Obviously Skyrim is based on the main land nordic countries Sweden,Norway, Finland and Denmark. Alot of the nordic terms in Skyrim is based on Old Norse language/way of speaking, not just icelandic. And Iceland was populated by celtic monks before Garðarr Svavarssons first visit, kind off like how dragon priests ruled solstheim before the dragon war(although solstheim was still attached to Skyrim at that point). So given those fact and that the general geography is very similar, I think its safe to say that Solstheim was based on Iceland. But I don't think that would make Greenland Vvardenfell?