Miriquidi is a medieval name for a forest, perhaps in the vicinity of the Ore Mountains, between the Elbe and Saale rivers.
A forest called Miriquido (silva que Miriquido dicitur) appears in a charter of Emperor Otto II of August 30, 974; in it he gives the forest to a church in Merseburg within certain limits between the rivers Saale and Mulde, but the exact location is not given.
The name also appears in the Chronicle (1012–1018) of Thietmar of Merseburg (in silva, quae Miriquidui dicitur), but again without any details of location.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the term Miriquidi was supposed by some historians to have been used for the primeval forest covering the Ore Mountains, and it continues to be used in this sense in local history publications and chronicles.
[1] More recently, it has been suggested that it is the Černý les ('black forest') of the Chernyakhov culture.