The Real Life Red Wedding: The Black Dinner of Scotland

The Real Life Red Wedding: The Black Dinner of Scotland

Author: History of Westeros December 16, 2024 Duration: 3:01:51

Scotland’s late medieval period was a Game of Thrones-like environment with powerful families fighting and scheming for power. A particularly notorious event - The Black Dinner - inspired GRRM to write the Red Wedding. We’ll examine all the gory details, politics, battles and intrigues plus other parallels beyond Stark, Frey and Lannister to characters like Bittersteel, Blackfish, Aenys Blackfyre and Unwin Peake. VIPHOW20 - ⁠⁠⁠https://magicmind.com/VIPHOW20⁠⁠⁠ - 20% off for one-time purchases and subscriptions.

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