Stoats are small carnivorous mammals found in the known world. The fur from its winter coat is referred to as ermine. The stoat is related to the weasel.
Culture
Members of House Frey are often compared to stoats on account of their facial features.[1][2]
Ermine fur is often included in luxurious garments.[3] Ermine spots can be a heraldic tincture; ermine is depicted in the arms of Houses Florent, Gower, Prester, Rosby, Ruthermont, and Varner, as well as the arms of Ser Illifer the Penniless.[4]
History
Prince Maekar Targaryen wore a heavy black cloak trimmed with ermine during the tourney at Ashford Meadow.[5]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Grand Maester Pycelle's red velvet robe has an ermine collar.[3]
A Clash of Kings
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister wears an ermine cloak when touring the gates of King's Landing.[6]
Rickon Stark wears an ermine mantle during the harvest feast at Winterfell.[7]
Lord Tywin Lannister wears a thick ermine cloak when departing Harrenhal.[8]
While in the House of the Undying, Daenerys Targaryen sees wizards wearing robes of ermine, ruby velvet, and cloth of gold.[9]
A Storm of Swords
Lord Walder Frey's lap is covered with an ermine robe at the Twins.[10]
A Feast for Crows
Cersei wears an old gown of black velvet lined with ermine for the wake of her father, Lord Tywin.[11] Lord Garrison Prester wears ermine when the lords of the westerlands depart King's Landing with Tywin's body.[12]
Lord William Mooton pins his ermine cloak with a salmon-shaped brooch,[13] and Lord Gilwood Hunter uses a brooch with five arrows for his own ermine cloak.[14]
Ser Jaime Lannister and his cousin, Ser Daven Lannister, mock House Frey for resembling stoats.[2]
A Dance with Dragons
Val wears an ermine cloak at Castle Black.[15] Selyse Baratheon dons an ermine mantle during the wedding of Sigorn and Alys Karstark,[16] and Gerrick Kingsblood is given an ermine half-cape by Selyse's retinue.[17]
Jeyne Poole, pretending to be Arya Stark, wears an ermine cloak clasped with a silver wolf's head.[18]
Lord Wyman Manderly pins his ermine mantle with a golden trident.[19]
Tycho Nestoris has robes trimmed with ermine.[20]
Quotes
Ser Illifer bore gold and ermine gyronny, though everything about him suggested that painted gold and painted ermine were the only sorts he'd ever known.[4]
—thoughts of Brienne Tarth
References
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 55, Catelyn VIII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
- ↑ The Hedge Knight.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 17, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 38, Arya VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 16, Jaime II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 14, Brienne III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 20, Reek II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 44, Jon IX.