Elms are trees found in the known world.
Culture
[edit]Elms can be found in the godswoods of the Red Keep,[1] Riverrun,[2] White Harbor,[3] and Winterfell.[4] Elms line a street in Barrowton which leads to Barrow Hall.[5]
Ser Duncan the Tall included an elm and a shooting star in his sigil.[6]
Crossed Elms is a village near the Gods Eye in the riverlands.[7]
History
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Ser Duncan the Tall set up his camp by a tall, leafy elm during the tourney at Ashford Meadow.[6]
Lord Brynden Rivers's pavilion was raised by a spreading elm tree near Whitewalls during his suppression of the Second Blackfyre Rebellion.[8]
When he was a child, Edmure Tully broke his arm in by falling from an elm in the godswood of Riverrun.[2]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]Lord Tywin Lannister takes his evening meal at a trestle table set up underneath an elm near the kingsroad in the northern riverlands.[9]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]Arya Stark sleeps in the branches of an elm while traveling near the Gods Eye.[10]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]Arya sees mossy elms in the riverlands.[11]
The brotherhood without banners hang Septon Utt beneath a tall elm following the battle at the burning septry.[12]
Merrett Frey passes a skeletal elm near Oldstones.[13]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]Brienne Tarth finds wild elms growing amidst the ruins of Hollard castle.[14]
The brotherhood without banners hang outlaws from elms and other trees,[15] and they attempt to hang Ser Hyle Hunt and Podrick Payne from elms.[16]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]Tyrion Lannister sees bare brown elms along the Valyrian road between Pentos and Ghoyan Drohe.[17]
Quotes
[edit]Dunk: There's my pavilion.
Egg: That's a tree.
Dunk: It's all the pavilion a true knight needs. I would sooner sleep under the stars than in some smoky tent.[6]
Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.[18]
—Jojen Reed to Bran Stark
References
[edit]- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 25, Eddard V.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Hedge Knight.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 62, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 19, Arya V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 17, Arya III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Epilogue.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 33, Tyrion VIII.