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The Sailor's Wife is a prostitute who works at the Happy Port brothel in Braavos.[1]
Character
Her real name is unknown, but she is called the Sailor's Wife because she only beds those who marry her.[2] She sometimes marries three or four times a night, wed by the red priest Ezzelyno or the septon Eustace or by a mummer. She has a fourteen-year-old daughter, named Lanna, who also works at the brothel.[3]
The Sailor's Wife can speak the Common Tongue of Westeros. She is generous, and quick to laugh, but there is something sad about her. She knows all the gods on the Isle of the Gods, even those that Braavos has forgotten.[3] Arya Stark considers the prostitutes of the Happy Port to be nice people who are kind to her, including the Sailor's Wife.[3]
History
The Sailor's Wife's first husband was lost at sea when she was no older than fourteen. Every month when her flower is in bloom, she visits the temples on the Isle of the Gods to pray for his return. However, according to the prostitute Yna who has known her the longest and who tasted her blood, her first husband is dead.[3]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
Arya Stark, disguised as the Braavos street urchin and fishmonger Cat of the Canals, becomes friends with the prostitutes of the Happy Port, including the Sailor's Wife. When the Sailor's Wife marries, she insists that her new husband buy oysters from Cat's barrow.[3]
Dareon pays for the right to bed the Sailor's Wife for one night by marrying her. Cat of the Canals tells his sworn brother, Samwell Tarly, about this, and he confronts Dareon in the Happy Port. They fight about Daeron breaking his Night's Watch vows, until Meralyn has Samwell thrown out of the Happy Port into one of the canals.[2]
Cat of the Canals visits the Happy Port to sell her wares, and sees that Yna is braiding Lanna's hair while Dareon sings. The Sailor's Wife tells Cat that the gods must have loved Dareon to give him such a good voice and a handsome face as well.[3]
A Dance with Dragons
Arya Stark recalls walking through Braavos with the Sailor's Wife, who told her tales of the stranger gods of the city.[4]
Quotes
She thinks that if she finds the right god, maybe he will send the winds and blow her old love back to her, but I pray it never happens. Her love is dead, I could taste that in her blood. If he ever should come back to her, it will be a corpse.[3]
—Yna, to Cat of the Canals, about the Sailor's Wife
Theories
References
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 26, Samwell III.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 64, The Ugly Little Girl.