I'd protect Dunk and Egg with my LIFE (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review)

I freaking LOVED A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin if you couldn't tell! DUNK AND EGG FOREVER!

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
03:00 - The "true" king
07:02 - The stories we tell ourselves
10:27 - Little choices snowball
12:32 - What is honor
13:06 - Sponsor
15:03 - On my Sansa shiz again
16:38 - On it being a prequel
18:36 - Conclusion

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[adamrivers]

Anyone who doesn’t like Dunk and Egg, or who hasn’t read these novelas, needs a clout on the ear.

[QuinnTheGM]

Honestly I love the idea of reading this between Storm and Feast. Those two books are DARK and Dunk and Egg is such a light and refreshing diversion!

[mrc-rrn]

"I dreamed of you, " said the prince.
"You said that at the inn."
"Did I? Well, it's so. My dreams are not like yours, Ser Duncan. Mine are true. They frighten me. You frighten me. I dreamed of you and a dead dragon, you see. A great beast, huge, with wings so large they could cover this meadow. It had fallen on top of you, but you were alive and the dragon was dead."

Aaah Targaryen Dragon Dreams and foreshadowing, i just love GRRM's writing. A very interesting topic and very important to the overall series

[lukeryan]

Dunk honestly feels like the character that is supposed to be what we think a knight is. When he calls out to the crowd and asks if there is a true knight I always get chills

[hjalmarbasile]

It's not mentioned in the books, but Lady Rohanne eventually marries again years later with Gerold Lannister, and she'll give birth to Tytos, so she's Tywin's grandmother.

Also another detail which might go unnoticed on a first read, but Maynard Plumm is actually Bloodraven in disguise, using a glamour.

[jaredmcdaris]

“ARE THERE NO TRUE KNIGHTS AMONG YOU!” Sworn Sword is my favorite, but I agree there’s not much question that Hedge Knight has the best ending.

[andrew-hffl]

Dunk and egg begins to build the sense that asoiaf is just a tiny slice of the history of westeros, and fire and blood hammers it home. With fire and blood you really learn that not only is asoiaf just a tiny peice of the timeline of westeros, it's not even necessarily the most interesting or important part, which is honestly so epic haha

[Archius]

You should listen to the audiobook. It’s read by the person who plays Viserys in the show and he does an incredible job

[alexfdezpal]

I’m enjoying your reviews of ASOAIF so much, and this one didn’t disappoint. You were pretty spot on with the themes, can’t wait for the next books! Imagine watching the Winds of Winter review this year😅😅😅

[autje]

I guess the most direct connection to the main series is Egg being the brother of Maester Aemon.

In connection to your observations about Sansa: the people in this world that are the most knightly (protecting those who can't protect themselves; being honorbale) are actually not knights: Dunk, Brienne, The Hound. While some of the actual knights, in particular some on the Kingsguard, are terrible men who are anything but knightly. EVen Jaime, the accursed Kingslayer, actually did a knightly thing when he slew the Mad King.

[BenJack]

Love that A Game of Thrones has now made it onto the center shelf with Cap’s shield.

[Moss_and_Such]

George is in top form here. It’s so refreshing to get a small focused story from him.

[HolasoyMai]

I'm so glad that you listen to your viewers' recommendations! Also happy you enjoyed the read, Dunk and Egg are very sweet

[anabourdieu]

Glad you pinpoint the revelancy of the Blackfyre rebellions in regards to Catelyn and her treatment of Jon. For sure it doesn't morally absolve her, but you kinda understand why she is scared of Jon being raised almost as a legitimate Stark and of Robb choosing him as his heir.
Jon was a few months older than Robb I believe, could be a legitimate threat to her children's claim to Winterfell. Of course Jon would never kill his siblings (and of course it's not like this never happened before in the world of ASOIAF), but what about his children if Jon was legitimized ? His children against Robb's ?

Catelyn is a woman raised in a society that is very harsh on bastards, but her neglect of Jon was also rooted in fear for her children. Doesn't make her 100% right and justified, but she is a much more grounded and complex character with that scenario in mind.

[epicLEKLE]

Something I didn’t pick up on at first is that it’s heavily hinted that Maynard Plumm is Bloodraven in disguise

[jewsco]

the dunk and egg stories are some of the best work martin has ever done and i cant wait for the tv show that is coming

[lanestapp]

Dunc: We'd all be bastard sons of old King Aegon if half these tales were true.
Maynard Plumm: And who's to say we're not?

[Gunleaver]

I don't think the Stannis/Renly conflict is all that comparable to Daemon/Daeron. Daemon & Daeron represent two different choices for king, not just in the type of man they were, but also the policies they represented. Reading between the lines, you can see a lot of the support has to do with the realm's policy toward Dorne. It also has to do with the kind of person they were using to help them rule and how one felt about that.
Meanwhile, the Renly/Stannis conflict was a clash of style versus substance. With the Blackfyre Rebellion, the argument as to who was the better choice depends largely on what one thinks would have been best for the Realm, and there are no firm answers. With the Baratheon conflict, there is no question that Renly is an empty suit, that his drive was for attention and glory, that he was a boy playing at war and kingship, with no real agenda or intention to govern, other than a blithe confidence that he could handle whatever issues arose, and that while Stannis' personal baggage and inability to deal empathetically with people were a severe handicap in getting them on his side, and while his resentments and grudges diverted him from pursuing the best policies, at the heart was a much better man and potential king. At the end of SoS, it is not a coincidence that Stannis is the last of the eponymous contenders of the War of Five Kings still standing, and the only one who has managed to accomplish something good for the realm.

[virgovirtuoso]

I adore Harry Llyod's narration and straight up voice acting on the Audible version of Dunk and Egg, his "chicken laugh" for Bennis of the Brown Shield just brings me so much joy.

[hypatiakovalevskayasklodow]

I think my favourite thing that happens in D&G (George does it with other characters too) is how we are consistently *told* that Dunk is thick, but what we are *shown* is that he is actually quite smart