Nagga
Nagga was a legendary sea dragon from the Age of Heroes. After she was slain by the Grey King, her bones are said to have made up the Grey King's Hall at Nagga's hill on Old Wyk.[1]
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Culure
Nagga's Cradle is the holy bay located between Old Wyk and Great Wyk.[2] Ironborn swear by Nagga's bones.[3]
Legend
According to ironborn legend, Nagga was the first sea dragon, able to feed on krakens and leviathans and drown islands when angry. The Grey King, helped by the Drowned God, managed to slay her on the shores of the island Old Wyk and built there his hall out of her bones. Her jaws became his throne and her teeth made his crown. He warmed his hall with her living fire. However, when the Grey King died, the Storm God drowned out her fire and the sea took the throne. Only her bones that made the pillars and beams remain.[1]
In some tales of Galon Whitestaff, the prophet's staff was made from one of Nagga's ribs.[4]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
After the death of his elder brother Balon, Euron Greyjoy is chosen King of the Isles and the North in a kingsmoot held amongst the sea dragon's bones at Nagga's Hill.[1]
Quotes
Beneath the bones of Nagga every captain stands as equal.[3]
Tristifer: Asha, I swear upon the bones of Nagga, I have never touched another woman.
Asha: Go touch one ... or two, or ten. I have touched more men than I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.[3]
Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first of kings.[1]
—thoughts of Aeron Greyjoy
Behind the Scenes
The name "Nagga" may derive from the Nāga, a mythological half-serpent race in religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns.