Hares are mammals similar to the real-life animal. They are related to rabbits.
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A Clash of Kings
Benfred Tallhart raises a company of young lancers during the War of the Five Kings. After Leobald Tallhart calls them young rabbits, they dub themselves the Wild Hares and tie rabbitskins to the ends of their lances.[1]
King Joffrey I Baratheon shoots at hares with a crossbow in the Red Keep; some are killed but others escape.[2]
A Storm of Swords
Summer, the direwolf of Bran Stark, hunts squirrels and hares as Bran's party travels toward the northern mountains.[3]
Sandor Clegane kills and cooks a hare near the Trident.[4]
A Feast for Crows
Three crossbowmen at the siege of Riverrun offer a share of a hare they caught to Ser Jaime Lannister.[5]
A Dance with Dragons
Varamyr skinchanges into a hare in the haunted forest.[6]
Potted hare is found in one of the storerooms of Castle Black.[7]
Quotes
Petyr: Boy, are you fond of potted hare?
Podrick: To eat, my lord?
Petyr: Invest in pots. Hares will soon overrun the castle. We'll be eating hare thrice a day.[2]
That was the way of the wild. Deer and hares and crows fled before wolves, and wolves fled from men.[4]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
References
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 17, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 24, Bran II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 65, Arya XII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.