Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30423945-20161105121218/@comment-31379678-20170427223601

Canker17 wrote: Hey I just found this glitch as well and I also have no idea what caused it. You are not alone in this I found another thread about this elsewhere (wasn't easy, weird that it's so rare). Best conclusion (and the one I believe) -- and they had other evidence of this, too -- is that there was an abandoned version of the quest that would have involved placing a burial urn in Yngol Barrow. This was replaced with the current version, where you get the claw from Birna, who would have given you the urn in the other version (and if you don't get the claw from her, you can also find it in the barrow). The message is a leftover placeholder -- it would have been replaced with whatever was supposed to happen when you placed the urn (probably a message and quest update at the time and a reward later from Birna). Somehow the placeholder message got left in the code and made it into the game, occasionally.