Today I realised "sweetroll" is the slang for "virginity"

[Serius_Sim]

I honestly thought they were refering to the pastries

[Sgt.Random♿]

Huh, cool.
Didn't actually know this but now it makes sense.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

LOL

[Alliecienti]

In that case I can stop storing my pastries in a locked safe now. WHEW! I was certain there was a band of pastries thieves operating in Skyrim but were very secretive so you never found out who they really are. Glad that whole thing is cleared up now.

[fauxpas]

Taking an arrow in the knee means they got married too.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Taking an arrow in the knee means they got married too.

That is taken from a real Norse phrase though. This is more conjecture, but funny and is even more funny when you think of all the guards saying "Aww, Let me guess . . ." like it is a sad thing. LOL

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Oh, and being a "Milk Drinker" or "Milk Sopp" means you're a child or infant.

[Ake]

Funny you should mention this. A few years ago, none other than Todd Howard himself gave an interview with IGN's very own Ethan Klein (rip) where he answered some of the questions people had about the Elder Scrolls V. He was asked a multitude of things, from the game's future and it's endless modding capabilities, to whether there would be a sequel planned down the road, the vast community presence on all kinds of well known modding forums and video game info sites, and even the writing and gameplay. Most importantly, he was asked about Skyrim's vast collection of memes (probably some sort of internet publicity thing. See Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality Meme Video here).

You know them, the "Arrow to the Knee" stuff and the all the captioned images online with screenshots of events and whatnot. During the conversation, he explained some of the lines the writers put into the game, and of course, the interviewer brought up the line "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?"

Howard laughed a little and said that these lines always had a secondary meaning behind them, almost like a double entendre. We already know the "Arrow to the knee" meant marriage. The sweetroll line evaded many of us however. He began by stating that it was in no way supposed to offend anyone, but that it was a bit of a joke on the team's part to include that line.

I'm kinda suprised this wasn't more well known than it appears to be. The interview has like 8.2 million views on YouTube last I checked.

[22 E 39th St Bayonne NJ]

one of the annyoin children mentions somethin bout sweetrolls and skeeverhole of a city. Guess I know what she really means

[Sgt.Random♿]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Taking an arrow in the knee means they got married too.

This is confirmed not to be true by the devs.
(I am pretty sure about this, not 100% sure tho).

[Alliecienti]

Town guard says:
"My cousin's out fighting dragons and what do I get? ....GUARD duty!"

To me this alsway was interpeted as :

"My cousin got really screwed while I'm safe and sound swilling mead in the barracks every night.
I sure hope my hangnail doesn't get infected. "

[Docsprock]

If this is true, then what is the deal with Butch trying to steal your sweetroll at your 10th birthday party? (FO3)

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Sgt.Random:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Taking an arrow in the knee means they got married too.

This is confirmed not to be true by the devs.
(I am pretty sure about this, not 100% sure tho).

As I recall what the devs actually said was that the line started as a funny joke line for the guards to say, not that it didn't mean marriage.

Originally posted by Alliecienti:

Town guard says:
"My cousin's out fighting dragons and what do I get? ....GUARD duty!"

To me this alsway was interpeted as :

"My cousin got really screwed while I'm safe and sound swilling mead in the barracks every night.
I sure hope my hangnail doesn't get infected. "

Eh, Nords are based on a romanticized version if Norse culture so missing out on the honor of fighting a dragon probably was meant to be taken literally.

[smr1957]

fauxpas is right - the only meaning contained in those lines are that the developers just happened to put them is. There are no "hidden" meanings and this is from the developers and Todd Howard themselves. That interview which the person mentions is being misremembered by the poster - Howard in fact attributes no hidden meaings to any of those more popular phrases.

But, facts never stand in the way of what people want to believe - they are just not as much fun as rumor, innuendo, gossip, and falsehoods.

[Sgt.Random♿]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by Sgt.Random:

This is confirmed not to be true by the devs.
(I am pretty sure about this, not 100% sure tho).

As I recall what the devs actually said was that the line started as a funny joke line for the guards to say, not that it didn't mean marriage.

Originally posted by Alliecienti:

Town guard says:
"My cousin's out fighting dragons and what do I get? ....GUARD duty!"

To me this alsway was interpeted as :

"My cousin got really screwed while I'm safe and sound swilling mead in the barracks every night.
I sure hope my hangnail doesn't get infected. "

Eh, Nords are based on a romanticized version if Norse culture so missing out on the honor of fighting a dragon probably was meant to be taken literally.

Actually you are wrong.

"No, it actually doesn't. It was apparently just made up by Bethesda employee Emil Pagliarulo, not expecting it to become an enormous meme.

Here's an interview with Todd Howard, Bethesda's Chief Game Developer.

"This was late in the project. We wanted to have the guards to have more personality. They're usually just grunting, telling you what to do. So we had Emil go in and write a lot more stuff and have them reflect you. So the guards say the most about you and what you've done: 'Oh, I like that armor.' 'I hear you're doing this.' And then, there is a suite of, 'Why am I no longer a guard? These guys are adventuring. I'm stuck here with dragons.' That was just one of the lines."

Also, it wouldn't make sense for this to be the case, as this post claims:

I did learn a lot about women in viking society as a whole, and while they were generally held in relatively high regard for homemakers, it was unlikely that they were held so highly that men would see marriage as something “crippling” as the arrow-to-the-knee joke suggests.

Also, since the quote implies that the saying is a current Nordic/Scandinavian saying, look at this thread.

No. It doesn´t. Never did. Regards, norwegian history buff.

I've never heard of it. Source: I'm a Norwegian."

[Serius_Sim]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

If this is true, then what is the deal with Butch trying to steal your sweetroll at your 10th birthday party? (FO3)

Yep, one of the darkest moment in the FO franchise.