Editing Bear Island (section)

===Ironmen and Northmen===
[[File: Aleksander Karcz Bear Island Scout.jpg|thumb|Bear Island scout by Aleksander Karcz © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Bear Island has long been disputed by the [[north]] and the [[Iron Islands]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Mountain Clans}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands}} Thousands of years ago,{{refn|group="N"|The [[Night's King]] might have been a Woodfoot.{{ref|twoiaf| The Wall and Beyond: The Night's Watch}}}} Bear Island was ruled by [[House Woodfoot]] prior to its conquest by the [[ironborn]].{{ref|ASOS|56}} The ironmen of antiquity controlled the [[Sunset Sea]] from Bear Island and the [[Frozen Shore]] as far south as the [[Arbor]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands}}

The island was used as a reaving base by [[Ravos Hoare]], the son of [[Harrag Hoare]], [[King of the Iron Islands]]. [[Theon Stark]], a [[King in the North]], drove the ironborn from Bear Island during his reign, slaying Ravos himself.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

The driftwood king [[Loron Greyjoy]] retook Bear Island, but it was again lost to the ironborn after the Old Kraken's death. King [[Rodrik Stark]] is said to have won the island in a wrestling match and granted it to [[House Mormont]],{{ref|AGOT|66}} although some scholars are skeptical of the story.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Mountain Clans}} This presumably occurred in the century after [[Gerold Lannister (king)|Gerold Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], raided the Iron Islands, when weaker driftwood kings lost most ironborn possessions along western [[Westeros]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

Lord [[Torrhen Stark]] sent a few longships from Bear Island to aid King [[Aegon I Targaryen]] in his campaign against the Iron Islands.{{ref|FAB|Reign of the Dragons - The Wars of King Aegon I}}

[[Elissa Farman]] sailed as far as Bear Island and the Arbor by the age of twenty.{{ref|FAB|A Surfeit or Rulers}}