Hemp is a plant. It can be used as material to make rope, sometimes used for executions.[1]
Culture
The head of the Titan of Braavos has green-dyed hempen rope for its long hair.[2]
Many corsairs from the Basilisk Isles decorate their ships with severed heads dangling from hempen rope, and they deliver the skulls to Skull Isle once all the flesh is gone.[3]
Begging brothers are often dressed in threadbare or roughspun robes of undyed wool belted with hempen rope.[4][5]
To climb the Wall, the free folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp.[6]
History
In antiquity, the natives of the Summer Isles used oared coracles and then larger ships with woven hemp sails.[7]
During Aegon's Conquest, hemp was among the many substances within Harrenhal that caught fire when King Aegon I Targaryen's dragon Balerion burned the castle.[8]
The Red Princes created the Planky Town, a settlement that floats upon the river, by lashing together with hempen rope poleboats, barges, and merchant ships.[9][10]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Wildlings climb the northern side of the Wall with hempen rope, stone hammers, ice axes, and spiked boots.[6] This group includes Hempen Dan, a ropemaker.[11]
A Dance with Dragons
Tyrion Lannister, going by the names Hugor Hill and Yollo, makes a bed atop the roof of one of the Shy Maid's cabins, with a coil of hempen rope for a pillow.[12]
Quotes
Stone does not burn, Harren had boasted, but his castle was not made of stone alone. Wood and wool, hemp and straw, bread and salted beef and grain, all took fire.[8]
—words of Gyldayn
Lord Randyll has better ways to deal with broken men—steel and hempen rope.[14]
Hanging seems your favorite sport in these parts. Would that I had some land hereabouts. I'd plant hemp, sell rope, and make my fortune.[1]
—Hyle Hunt to a child of the crossroads inn
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 6, Arya I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 20, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 25, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 30, Jon IV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Summer Isles.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Fire & Blood, Aegon's Conquest.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.