Right, I'm around 70 hours into Skyrim and lovin it! Easily Game of the Year for me!

Thing is, it is impossible for me to finish this 1 quest, and by looking through numerous amounts of different forums, it seems a lot of other people are having similar problems with this quest.

O.k, I've been into all 3 dungeons that need to be explored for the Gauldur amulets. Thing is, I only have 2 of the 3 amulets..... puzzling I know right? But all 3 dungeons have been cleared, I distinctly remember doing the Saarthal quest as I did it a few days ago and can remember picking the amulet up. As well as doing the mini boss fight in Geirmund's Hall.

So my question to you is......where the hell is this 3rd amulet?! I can't have sold it or misplaced or dropped it as its a quest item, I've been through all 3 dungeons 2-3 times and there is no boss to be seen at the end, just normal enemies.

Help anyone....?

I stopped reading here.


j/k, I think you probably didn't get the amulet from the boss in Geirmund's Hall. I found a bug whereby if you killed him with a bow his body disappears, thus leaving you with no loot. I had to re-load the save and kill him with magic. Who knows what else triggers his disappearance?

I killed him with a bow and he dropped the amulet for me. Did you do all the dungeons after getting the quest? This is the one with the dungeon right outside of solitude right? If it helps i did it in this order: Sarthal, the one outside Solitude, Geirmunds Hall.

Just another example of how every single quest in this game can be breakable. I actually cleared the dungeon without knowing it was part of that quest. The quest marker was telling me to head north somewhere, but I was ignoring it because I already knew every quest in the game is bugged and was waiting for a mythical patch.

I was in this particular dungeon because I thought I could find Reyda's remains in it. lol. So anyway, I killed the boss twice with arrows and he disappeared both times, so I killed him with magic and his body remained.

Bethesda. Game of the Year. Bravo.

It's a pretty "meh" reward but a cool quest with a pretty frustrating and involved final battle too (especially after clear three dungeons to get the three amulets). I hope one of the patches fixes it for you.

Hey, I'm rocking my +50 stamina necklace.

Well, I was back when I was playing the game. Trying to play. So long ago....

I got the quest from reading the "Lost Legends" book, then I did Folgunthur first and then Geirmund's Hall afterwards. I only did Saarthal a few days back since I've only just joined the College of Winterhold.

And no, I didn't use bows to kill any of the bosses, my dude is a spellsword

Hope that helps in anyway, but I'm eagerly waiting for this "Radiant Story" fix, its just annoying how this is the only quest I can't finish, also makes me cautious about going around dungeon crawling now, never know what quest might get broke

something similar happened to me in the very first dragon stone quest. When I killed him the boss dissapeared, no loot( dragon stone). Fortunately I Save before EVERY boss fight so if this happens you just load save fight again and hope it goes well. It was my Astronoch that blew him through a wall is why he dissapeared and I couldn't loot the dragon stone. ALWAYS save right before any big fight.

I did this quest last night and didn't have any problesm getting the three amulets, but there is a bug in Saarthal that can get you stuck with no other choice but to go to a previous save.

You need to be careful when you get to the boss fight at the end of Saarthal. When you enter the room where the boss fight is, it is initially empty. The boss fight begins after you pick up the amulet that is on the opposite side of the room as the entrance. Here is the detail but be warned, there are spoilers:

I was able to get all 3 amulets and 2 of the unique weapons , but I never found the staff that the boss in Saarthal carries . It wasn't quest breaking I know , but I thought I'd mention it . Seems Skyrim just randomly likes to keep stuff for itself sometimes .

For all the time u spent on the quest.
I found the amulet too be useless

I had a similar situation because of the Unrelenting Force by one of the brothers. He knocked me back through the iron gate that had closed behind the entrance to the room somehow, and I couldn't get back in to fight the boss. It's not like there was a lever or something I could use. Had to reload a previous save.

The 3 amulets put together to make one is pretty handy. The pieces are useless by themselves.

I just did the Geirmund's Hall portion of the quest. I cleared the boss and the entire place. The marker pointed me to a spot in the middle of the pool of water. There was no amulet fragment. I looked for an hour or so, left the cave and went back in, restarted and still no fragment. I'm not the only one to notice this. I've seen this on other forums, for instance...
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/37939/cannot-pickup-gauldur-amulet-fragment-in-geirmunds-hall

Like I mention above, the boss's body disappears if you kill him in certain ways. Is the boss still lying where you killed him or has he disappeared? Better hope you have a previous save...

It doesn't matter anyway now, I can make amulets that give me 70+ Health, Magicka and Stamina so the quest is kind of pointless.

But it's annoying to have incomplete quests clogging up your journal though.