Jordan College, Oxford

This article covers the fictional locations in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.

Jordan College is a fictional college. It exists in the Oxford in a universe parallel to our own, and is the home of the trilogy's young heroine Lyra Belacqua.

The location and layout of Jordan College is analogous to the location of Exeter College,Philip Pullman's alma mater, in Oxford. However, unlike the fictional college, Exeter College is not the oldest (it is the fourth-oldest), nor is it the largest or richest college of the University of Oxford.

Jordan College is an exaggerated version of the real Exeter College, rambling above and below ground in a motley arrangement of buildings, cellars and tunnels constructed over several centuries:

The name 'Jordan' was inspired partly by the area of Oxford, known as Jericho, an area called 'Jericho' also features in Northern Lights as a mooring point for the Gyptians's boats.

Trollesund is the main port of the country of Lapland, which Lyra and her Gyptian protectors visit during their journey to Bolvangar. Trollesund has a witch consulate, which the Gyptians go to in order to get support from the witches.

In Trollesund Lyra first meets Lee Scoresby, an aeronaut and prospector who has been stranded in the town as a result of a failed expedition, and Iorek Byrnison, an exiled armoured bear whom the townspeople had tricked into working for them as a metalworker with alcohol as payment. Both Lee and Iorek leave Trollesund with Lyra.

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