"Game of Thrones" - writer based shock stage on the true story - Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet :) Monday was by far the most famous episode in the series “Game of Thrones” is available for Norwegian viewers through the flow service HBO Nordic and TV channel C MORE.

Yesterday Dagbladet wrote about why author George RR chose to write the scene.

If you have not yet seen the episode and do not want to know what happened, you should stop reading here.

” Red Wedding »

In the episode “The Rains of Castamere” – the penultimate in Season 3 of the hit series – takes “The Red Wedding”.

It revolves around the wedding of Catelyn Stark’s brother Edmure Tully and Lord Walder Frey’s daughter Roslin Frey.

ceremony was apparently enabled to patches together the relationship between the two families after Catelyn Stark’s son, Robb Stark, married another girl instead of marrying into the Frey clan, so he had promised.

The spurned Frey family forgot however Starks betrayal, and in “The Red Wedding” ends with the wedding that the massacres Robb Stark, his pregnant wife, his mother Catelyn Stark and almost 3500 of their subjects during the grand wedding.

“The black dinner”

Today TIME writes that the author has found inspiration for the scene from a famous historical event that took place in Scotland in the Middle Ages. The incident was not a wedding but a dinner with the king.

In November 1440 namely all the main men of the Douglas clan to dine with the young King of Scotland at Edinburgh Castle and his aides Sir William Crichton and Sir Alexander Livingston.

According to the story, the two young earls David and William Douglas and their men have given guarantees of safe passage.

situation between clans in Scotland in the 1400s was similar to the fictional Westeros: The land was torn between rival noble families.

author of “Game of Thrones” George RR Martin, describes what took place in Scotland as follows:

– At the end of the party joined the King’s men to beat on a drum. They took out a dish with a lid, and put it in front of Earl. Under the lid was head of a black bull – symbol of death, he said.

The dinner ended with the earls were killed.

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George R.R. Martin also mentions Glencoe massacre, which took place Scotland in the 1700s, which inspired the scene – which has upset many fans.

Also by Glencoe went beyond the highland clan MacDonald, who received several dozen of their slaughtered by soldiers they had brought in to provide shelter from a winter storm.