Ferry
Ferries are used to transport passengers across bodies of water, such as the Blackwater Rush[1][2] and the Trident.[3] They are guided by ferryman.[3] Wherries are also used for transport on rivers like the Blackwater.[4]
Contents
Culture
Old Ferry is a place in the riverlands.[5]
Scattered throughout the free city of Braavos are small wharves and landings for fishermen and ferries.[6] The Red Princes lashed together poleboats and ferries built by the orphans of the Greenblood to establish a gathering place called the Planky Town.[7]
Since there is no bridge across Blackwater Rush, it is the ferries that allow transport from the capital's fish market and harbor, which are on the northern shore, to the kingswood on the southern shore.[8][9] Unlike in the Seven Kingdoms, there are no ferries or bridges across the lakes and rivers beyond the Wall.[10]
History
The Velaryon fleet, led by Lord Aethan Velaryon, was used to ferry men to the Stepstones in two campaigns against the pirate king Sargoso Saan in 29 AC and 30 AC.[11]
In the versions of the book entitled A Wanton's Tale and The Wickedness of Men, in 50 AC, Rogar Baratheon, then the Hand of the King, met Lady Coryanne Wylde in the inn on the south bank of the Blackwater Rush, beside the ferry landing, as she was traveling to King's Landing to begin serving in the household of Queen Alysanne Targaryen on Dragonstone. There, he had her disrobe to inspect and feel her body, and bedded her that night.[12][N 1]
In 212 AC, Ned, a ferryman at the old inn by the lakeshore, ferried several guests across the Gods Eye for the festivities of the wedding tourney at Whitewalls, including Ser John the Fiddler, Lord Shawney, Lord Costayne, Lord Smallwood, and various hedge knights, such as Ser Duncan the Tall and Prince Aegon Targaryen.[13] Some seventy to eighty years before the War of the Five Kings (c.220 AC-230 AC), one could take a ferry across the Trident from the inn at the crossroads to the road that led to Lord Harroway's Town and Whitewalls. However, the river moved, so the ferry landing at the crossroads inn was abandoned.[14]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Following the arrest of Eddard Stark, his daughter Arya Stark wants to leave King's Landing, so she considers swimming the Blackwater Rush, but the current is treacherous, and she cannot afford a ferry or a ship.[15]
A Clash of Kings
Shagga takes a ferry south across the Blackwater Rush.[8]
At the start of the Battle of the Blackwater, the fleet of Stannis Baratheon is organized into ten battle lines composed of twenty ships each, with the last lines containing the smaller and slower-sailing ships, who are thus going to ferry Stannis's host.[4] During the battle, the Lannisters launched a "swarm" of ferries, wherries, hulks, barges, skiffs, and rowboats laden with wildfire, which was not meant to "turn the tide of a fight, only get in the way".[4]
A Storm of Swords
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Blackwater, a flat-bottomed ferry is one of the few ships crossing the river at the capital.[9]
When Sandor Clegane and the disguised Arya Stark arrive in Lord Harroway's Town, Sandor demands passage across the flooded Trident. The bent-backed man offers to ferry them on a flat-bottomed boat that Sandor calls "Old King Andahar's two-headed water horse",[3] which is also House Roote's sigil.[16] During the difficult voyage, mainly due to a storm, the bent-backed man controls the rudder. Once across, the ferryman demands to be paid six dragons, but Sandor pays him with a promissory note from Beric Dondarrion instead of gold.[3]
Once Lord Roose Bolton reaches the Trident on his way to the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, torrential rains make fording impossible, so the northmen are forced to ferry his men across in small boats. Roose has ferried two-thirds of his force across by the time Ser Wylis Manderly and the knights from White Harbor, who were serving as rear guard during the operation, are suddenly attacked by Lannister forces led by Gregor Clegane arrives, leading to fighting at the fords of the Trident.[17]
A Feast for Crows
After visiting the Quiet Isle, Brienne of Tarth, Podrick Payne, and Septon Meribald take a ferry to the ruins of Saltpans.[18] Storks wade in the shallow waters around the ferry landing, but when the tide is in, the brothers in the Quiet Isle use a ferry to get to the mainland.[18]
A Dance with Dragons
The Warden of the River is in charge of all the ferries, dredges, and irrigation ditches along the Skahazadhan for fifty leagues from Meereen.[19]
See Also
- List of all known ships
Notes
- ↑ In the older, shorter versions of the book A Caution for Young Girls, entitled Sins of the Flesh and The High and the Low, it was not Lord Rogar who awaited Lady Coryanne at the inn near the ferry landing, but his younger brother Borys.
References
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 18, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 52, Sansa IV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 58, Davos III.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 26, Samwell III.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Queer Customs of the South.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 49, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 16, Sansa II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 46, Samwell III.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragons.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, A Surfeit of Rulers.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Riverlands
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 55, The Queensguard.