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Skyrim is a region of Tamriel, a continent and the main setting of the fictional world in The Elder Scrolls game series. Skyrim is the eponymous setting of the fifth game in the franchise, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the homeland of the Nords, one of TES's playable races. The name Skyrim is analogous with "the northernmost region," and is Tamriel's 'North' and a conceptualization of the real world's ideas of northernness. What's the North? Oh, of course there are Nordic people there, vikings, ships, people in wooden stave buildings, tales of dragons, Norse gods, heroes, and magic. This packaging of the North as a series of ideas, images, themes, icons, etc. has a history that goes back to Classical texts, although it has changed and developed substantially up to the present day. While there were no Vikings two thousand years ago, the North always symbolized certain things to literate peoples of the ancient world. Our current associations with the North can be traced mostly to the 18th and 19th centuries, when Old Norse culture saw a reemergence in the artistic, popular, and academic spheres of western and northern European nations, in particular Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and England, as well as the United States of America. Authors, travelers, artists, poets, romantics, politicians, academics, and many more became fascinated with Old Norse culture, much of which was tied to romantic nationalism and nation building efforts of this time. CHANGE ADD MORENo links to Medieval Citations yet.