Pigs are mammals in the known world similar to the real-life animal. Boars are related to pigs.
Culture
[edit]Domesticated pigs can be kept in pig yards[1] or sties[2] and slaughtered for food.[3]
Sow's Horn is the seat of House Hogg.[4] Ser Harys Hogg wore a pig's head helm and was known as Harry the Ham.[5]
The coat of arms of Ser Clayton Suggs depicts a winged pig.[6] Hal the Hog is a guard at Dragonstone.[7]
Pig Alley,[8] Pigrun Alley,[9] Sowbelly Row[10] are found in King's Landing. The Isle of Pigs is near the Arbor.[11]
The Sealord's menagerie is said to include hairy mouse-pigs.[12]
History
[edit]Spotted Pate is a legendary pig boy celebrated in numerous stories.[13]
Wild pigs were found on the isles Aegon, Rhaenys, and Visenya by Alys Westhill.[14]
Ser Arlan of Pennytree first encountered Dunk when the boy was chasing a pig through the alleys of King's Landing.[15]
Suckling pig and salt pork were served during the wedding tourney at Whitewalls. During the feast, a troupe of painted dwarfs emerged from belly of a wheeled wooden pig and chased the fool of Lord Ambrose Butterwell with inflated pig's bladders.[15]
In an effort to toughen Brienne Tarth, Ser Goodwin forced the reluctant girl to slaughter lambs and suckling pigs.[16]
Lord Roose Bolton sent some piglets to Ramsay Snow's mother each year.[17]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]Ser Alliser Thorne mocks the fat Samwell Tarly as "Ser Piggy" and "Lord of Ham".[18]
In the Western Market of Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys Targaryen meets an old woman who makes pork sausages when in Pentos.[19]
Five suckling pigs are served at Lord Tywin Lannister's meal with his retainers before the battle on the Green Fork.[20]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]Immense hams are served at Renly Baratheon's feast at Bitterbridge.[21]
Jon Snow sees a host of piglets rooting about three huge sows in the sty of Craster's Keep.[2]
Honeyed ham is one of the courses in a supper enjoyed by Tyrion Lannister and his sister, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister.[22]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]
Some of the brotherhood without banners were once swineherds.[23]
Two dwarfs (Oppo and Penny) comedically joust from a dog and a sow (Crunch and Pretty Pig) during the royal wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[24][25]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]Three-Finger Hobb gives Samwell a salted ham on his name day.[26]
Marillion mocked Lord Nestor Royce and his son, Ser Albar Royce, by comparing them to pigs in song.[27]
Campaigning to become the next High Septon, Septon Luceon fetes thirty of the Most Devout on suckling pig.[28] Queen Regent Cersei Lannister disapproves of sparrows befouling the plaza of the Great Sept of Baelor with their pigs and goats.[29]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]Tyrion is served suckling pig at Illyrio's manse.[30]
While guiding Bran Stark and his friends toward the cave of the three-eyed crow, Coldhands detects the presence of men in the haunted forest; the ranger hunts them down and kills them with his ravens. Summer, Bran's direwolf, then finds five black-clad bodies in the forest. Bran wakes from his skinchanging to find that Coldhands has returned with meat, claiming he found a sow.[31]
Halleck, the brother of the late Harma Dogshead, kneels before Stannis Baratheon and yields her pigs.[32]
Ramsay Bolton mocks the fat Lord Wyman Manderly as Lord Pig. Wyman brings a hundred pigs with him to Barrowton.[17] During Ramsay's wedding feast, Wyman serves three pork pies.[33]
Quotes
[edit]—Craster to Jeor Mormont
Cersei: We have Lady Tanda to thank for the pig.
Tyrion: A token of her love?
Cersei: A bribe. She begs leave to return to her castle.[22]
Hams. There were pigs, last time we come. I bet he's got hams hid someplace. Smoked and salted hams, and bacon too.[35]
Spotted Pate the pig boy was the hero of a thousand ribald stories: a good-hearted, empty-headed lout who always managed to best the fat lordlings, haughty knights, and pompous septons who beset him. Somehow his stupidity would turn out to have been a sort of uncouth cunning; the tales always ended with Spotted Pate sitting on a lord's high seat or bedding some knight's daughter. But those were stories. In the real world pig boys never fared so well.[13]
—thoughts of Pate
Petyr: Lysa could not see the evil in men, only the good. Marillion sang sweet songs, and she mistook that for his nature.
Albar: He called us pigs. He made a song about two pigs snuffling round a mountain, eating a falcon's leavings. That was meant to be us, but when I said so he laughed at me. 'Why, ser, 'tis a song about some pigs,' he said.[27]—Petyr Baelish and Albar Royce
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
The larders of the Iron Fleet were filling up with smoked hams, salted pork, and bacon.[37]
—thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy
References
[edit]- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 32, Arya III.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 23, Jon III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime III.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 10, Davos II.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 29, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 45, Samwell V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 50, Arya IV.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 20, Brienne IV.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 54, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 62, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 54, Tyrion XII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 34, Arya VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 33, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 4, Bran I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 40, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 56, The Iron Suitor.