Cronvangr Cave

Spider-infested cave south of Riverside Shack where vampires have built a cottage inside, with a giant frostbite spider brooding in the depths below.

Cronvangr Cave lies just south of Riverside Shack and north of Eldergleam Sanctuary, west of Bonestrewn Crest and east of Mixwater Mill. You’ll spot it by the egg sacs outside and a dead mammoth caught in the webs, which is never a good sign. Inside are two very different neighbours: a nest of frostbite spiders and a group of vampires who have built themselves a cosy cottage underground.

What you’ll find

  • An entry room with six frostbite spiders and an iron ore vein.
  • A hidden door on the north side, opened by a brown button in a square frame near the fake rock wall. A fire trap is on the floor right behind it.
  • A circular cave with a cottage on a ledge, guarded by three leveled vampires, with more possibly asleep inside.
  • An alchemy lab, an arcane enchanter and an adept-locked chest behind the cottage.
  • A spider room with eight more spiders and a long spiral path into the earth, plus a pool with a small chest at the bottom.
  • Cronvangr Broodlair – spider-patrolled tunnels, a chest behind thick webs, and a nest with a giant frostbite spider guarding a chest next to a moonstone vein.

Quests

Cronvangr is a common radiant target. It can hold Queen Freydis’s Sword, The Forgemaster’s Fingers, Meridia’s Beacon, Shalidor’s Insights, Roggi’s ancestral shield, the courier from Arniel’s Endeavor or a Totem of Hircine. It can also be where Gunmar waits in A New Order, or an Animal Extermination target.

Notable items

  • The Locked Room – Lockpicking skill book on a table in the cottage.
  • Moonstone and iron ore veins.

Tips

Look for the button before you go blundering through the webs, and step around the fire trap behind the door. The three vampires around the cottage are the real threat, so try to catch the sleepers inside before they wake. If a quest item isn’t in any chest, check the egg sacs: here, quest loot sometimes hides inside them. The broodlair exit loops back to a ledge above the first room, so you won’t have to walk the whole way out.

Nearby

Closest places covered on TamrielSaga: Mixwater Mill, Broken Limb Camp, Riverside Shack, Witchmist Grove, Bonestrewn Crest.

Location data (hold, map position, editor ID) read from the Skyrim game files; details checked against community wiki articles and summarised in our own words.

Characters found here

Quests that lead here

Creatures you will meet

Frostbite Spiders lurk in Skyrim’s caves and ruins, spitting venom from the ceiling. Variants, tactics and the ingredients they drop.

Weapons found here

Armor found here

Roggi’s Ancestral Shield in Skyrim: unenchanted iron heirloom found in a random cave such as Ansilvund for Roggi Knot-Beard of Kynesgrove’s favor quest.

Items found here

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Sources checked: Skyrim game files (map markers, location records, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom location articles (export 2026-10-11)