A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.
Uses
Hemp is a plant that can be used as material to make rope, often used for executions.[1]
The towers of Pyke are connected by swaying rope bridges. The Sea Tower is accessible from the Great Keep through three increasingly narrow bridges, the last of which is made of rope.[2]
Culture
The head of the Titan of Braavos has green-dyed hempen rope for its long hair.[3] 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.[4]
Begging brothers are often dressed in threadbare or roughspun robes of undyed wool belted with hempen rope.[5][6] Ghael wears ropes of pearls and spun gold on his neck.[7]
History
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.[8][9]
Lord Lyonel Tyrell liked Dornish women, but one night, when he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.[10][11]
King Baelor I Targaryen wore white septon's robes tied off with a rope belt.[12]
Alannys Harlaw eventually began to roam the halls of Pyke in search of her lost sons, Maron and Rodrik, even walking the rope bridge to the Sea Tower while barefoot.[13]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Catelyn Stark and Ser Rodrik Cassel book a passage on Storm Dancer from White Harbor to King's Landing, but a storm near Dragonstone has the knight cling to a rope when nearly swept overboard and has to be rescued by three crewmembers.[14]
A Clash of Kings
While the Night's Watch is encamped at the Fist of the First Men during the great ranging, Ghost finds a bundle of black wool buried in a mound of soft earth behind a fallen tree. A length of rope binds together the bundle, which is perhaps two feet across.[15]
A Storm of Swords
A group from the brotherhood without banners visits the hidden village, whose little moss-covered houses are linked by a maze of rope walkways, and the villagers can unroll rope ladders to reach the ground.[16]
Wildlings climb the northern side of the Wall with hempen rope, stone hammers, ice axes, and spiked boots.[17] This group includes Hempen Dan, a ropemaker.[18]
During a fierce storm at Pyke, King Balon Greyjoy dies in a fall from one of the rope bridges that connect the towers of his castle.[19][20]
A Feast for Crows
While celebrating the taking of the Shields, Germund Botley wears a rope of pearls and garnets over his gilded breastplate.[21]
When her father's boat leaves the dock, Brea catches the rope that Cat of the Canals throws to her.[22]
When Ser Jaime Lannister arrives at the siege of Riverrun, he finds Lord Edmure Tully with a rope around his neck for days, so he orders Ser Ilyn Payne to cut the rope with his sword.[23]
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.[24]
When the Elephant and the Goodheart arrive at Hardhome, the desperate wildlings, unaware that they are dealing with pirates, want to be taken away, but as soon as they are out to sea, the pirates put them below and rope them up, meaning to sell them all as slaves in Lys.[25]
During the rescue of "Arya Stark", Frenya, a spearwife, wears a rope as a girdle, but as they fight their way out of the castle, the spearwives are taken down one by one by House Bolton guards. Frenya fights six guardsmen by the drawbridge, leaving Theon and Jeyne without a rope to escape down the outer wall.[26]
Quotes
Lord Randyll has better ways to deal with broken men—steel and hempen rope.[28]
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
Behind the Scenes
At a convention in 2008, George R.R. Martin read an early version of A Dance with Dragons, Jon II, in which Janos Slynt was actually hanged from the Wall. The rope used was one hundred feet long, with Slynt breaking his neck when he hits the end.[29]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 11, Theon I.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: House Tyrell.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: Targaryen Kings (November 1, 2005).
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 18, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 34, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 30, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 54, Davos V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 45, The Blind Girl.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
- ↑ asoiaf.westeros.org: [Pre-ADwD Spoilers] Jon 3 but actually Jon 1 (March 30, 2008)