Editing Grenn (section)

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===''A Game of Thrones''===
Grenn is [[Jon Snow's Night's Watch recruitment group|one of the recruits]] at [[Castle Black]] when [[Jon Snow]] comes to join the [[Night's Watch]]. They are trained together by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], with Alliser deriding Grenn as "Aurochs". While training with blunted swords, Jon defeats Grenn and causes an injury to his hand. Grenn, [[Todder]], and two other recruits confront the younger Jon, but [[Donal Noye]] prevents further violence and reminds Jon of his advantageous upbringing.{{Ref|AGOT|19}} After he has received news that his brother [[Bran Stark|Bran]] has woken from his coma, Jon is conciliatory towards Grenn, offering to teach him how to defend against the move that has caused his injury.{{Ref|AGOT|19}}

Grenn trains with Jon Snow and his sword fighting soon improves, now able to hold his own against a more adept recruit such as [[Halder]]. As a result, [[Pypar]] also asks Jon for help.{{Ref|AGOT|21}}

Alliser picks on [[Samwell Tarly]] when he arrives at the [[Wall]], commanding Halder, [[Rast]], and [[Albett]] to fight the inept youth. Grenn, Jon, and Pyp defend Sam, however. Because Rast is still willing to hurt Sam for Alliser, he is visited in the night by Grenn, Jon, and Pyp and threatened by Jon's [[direwolf]], [[Ghost]]. Sam joins Grenn, Jon, Pyp, and Halder during meals and eventually shares in their jests.{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

When a new group of recruits heads toward Castle Black, Alliser names eight of his novices ready to join the Night's Watch. Grenn celebrates with [[wine]].{{Ref|AGOT|41}} Grenn is happy to be assigned to the [[ranger]]s, while Jon is assigned to the [[steward]]s.{{Ref|AGOT|48}}

Following [[arrest of Eddard Stark|the arrest]] of Lord [[Eddard Stark]], Jon's father, in [[King's Landing]] as a traitor, Grenn is among those who lend support to Jon, telling him that the accusation is a lie. He and others stop Jon from attacking Alliser with a knife when the master-at-arms calls Jon "not only a [[bastard]], but a traitor's bastard".{{Ref|AGOT|52}}

Jon saves the life of [[Jeor Mormont]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], when he is attacked by [[Othor|a wight]]. Out of gratitude, the Old Bear gives Jon his family sword, [[Longclaw]], as a gift. Afterwards, Pyp joins others who ask Jon to show them the [[Valyrian steel]] blade, explaining that they knew about the present before Jon did.{{Ref|AGOT|60}}

Grenn is among the group of friends who stop Jon from abandoning the Wall and forswearing himself following the execution of his father in King's Landing. When Jon declares he needs to be with his brother [[Robb Stark|Robb]], Grenn says that those of the Night's Watch are his brothers now. He goes on explaining that, while everyone is sorry about Lord Eddard's fate, Jon cannot go back once he has made the vow.{{Ref|AGOT|70}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Grenn Beyond Wall.jpg|thumb|350px|Grenn while [[beyond the Wall]], by Amok ©]]
Grenn participates in the [[great ranging]] led by Lord Commander Mormont. Before it starts, Pyp, Toad, and Halder bring Grenn to [[Mole's Town]] to buy him [[Mole's Town brothel|his first woman]] in celebration of his first ranging.{{Ref|ACOK|6}}

During the ranging [[beyond the Wall]], Grenn serves as an outrider and is usually paired with [[Dywen]]. The gnarled, veteran ranger takes on a mentor role; clouting Grenn on the ear and advising the young ranger. When the group approaches [[Craster's Keep]], Dywen tells Grenn that [[Craster]] was born of a [[free folk|wildling]] woman and a ranger. Dywen warns Jon and others to not look after [[Craster's wives]]. Grenn later challenges Dywen's boast that he slept with three of Craster's daughters during the night, explaining that he would have noticed that.{{Ref|ACOK|23}}

Dywen declares there is a strange smell around the [[Fist of the First Men]], explaining to Grenn that it smells cold.{{Ref|ACOK|34}} Jon makes daggers from the stash of [[dragonglass]] he has found at the Fist, keeping one for himself and giving others to Grenn, Sam, and Lord Commander Mormont.{{Ref|ACOK|43}}{{Ref|ASOS|33}} Grenn also takes dragonglass arrowheads from the cache.{{Ref|ASOS|33}}

When Jon kills [[Qhorin Halfhand]] in the [[Skirling Pass]] on his command to prove that he has forsaken the Night's Watch so that he can infiltrate the camp of [[Mance Rayder]], Jon wonders whether he has lost his friends.{{Ref|ACOK|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Dejan Delic the Other.jpg|350px|thumb|Grenn and [[Samwell Tarly]] face down an [[Other]], by Dejan Delic ©]]
While the Night's Watch is encamped at the [[Fist of the First Men]], Grenn tries to help [[Samwell Tarly]] with his archery.{{ref|ASOS|Prologue}} Grenn survives the [[fight at the Fist]], in which the Watch is attacked by [[wights]]. Grenn and [[Small Paul]] encourage the dispirited Sam during the retreat south through the [[haunted forest]], with Grenn beginning to sing "[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]".{{Ref|ASOS|18}} When the trio become separated from the rest of the survivors, an [[Others|Other]] emerges from the wood. Grenn tries to ward it away with fire, but the Other extinguishes his torch and kills Paul. While the Other is distracted, Sam stabs it in the back with a dragonglass dagger.{{ref|ASOS|18}}

Grenn is among those who make it back to [[Craster's Keep]], and he splits wood at a firepit. Grenn praises Samwell for killing the Other by calling him Sam the Slayer, but disbelieving members of the Watch use the nickname to mock Sam.{{Ref|ASOS|33}} After Craster is murdered and [[Jeor Mormont]] is stabbed during the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep]], Grenn slaps and shouts at Sam in an attempt to rouse the shocked youth. Sam is unresponsive, however, so Grenn and others leave him behind with the dying [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]].{{ref|ASOS|33}}{{ref|ASOS|48}}

Grenn is among a dozen who reach the safety of [[Castle Black]]. When [[Jon Snow]] returns to the Wall, he is informed by Grenn, [[Pypar]], and Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] about the [[capture of Winterfell|supposed deaths]] of his half brothers, [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark]].{{ref|ASOS|48}} Grenn helps villagers from [[Mole's Town]] seek shelter atop the Wall prior to the [[attack on Castle Black]] by [[Styr]].{{Ref|ASOS|55}}

During the [[battle beneath the Wall]], Grenn wields a bow and rolls barrels of burning oil from the Wall to attack the wildlings of [[Mance Rayder]], [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]].{{Ref|ASOS|64}} Jon leaves command of the Wall to Grenn when he descends to Castle Black.{{Ref|ASOS|64}} Grenn later helps roll barrels of crushed stone to destroy the wildlings' [[Turtle (siege engine)|turtle]].{{Ref|ASOS|69}}

Grenn greets Sam warmly when he returns to Castle Black, grinning and hugging him so hard Sam thinks his ribs might break. In conversation with Pyp and Grenn, Sam starts to think he should convince one of the candidates in the Night's Watch [[election]] to withdraw to support the other.{{Ref|ASOS|75}} When Jon Snow is elected the new Lord Commander to succeed Jeor Momront, Grenn is among those who congratulate him.{{Ref|ASOS|79}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Castle Black Squad by chillyravenart.jpg|350px|thumb|[[Eddison Tollett|Dolorous Edd]], Grenn, [[Jon Snow]], [[Pypar|Pyp]], [[Satin]], and [[Samwell Tarly]], by chillyravenart ©]]
Grenn and [[Pypar]] practice with longbows. Grenn complains that Jon has not been the same since being chosen the new Lord Commander.{{Ref|AFFC|5}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Jon sees Grenn eating with Pyp and his other friends in the cellar below the armory. They invite Jon to sit with them, but he refuses. Afterward, Lord Commander Snow reluctantly assigns Grenn and Pyp to [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]].{{Ref|ADWD|10}}