Kathleen Horning- A Song
of Ice and Fire
Topic: Outside reading
December 3, 2015
I
am currently reading A Song of Ice and
Fire by George R.R. Martin. Early in the book, I noticed a chapter that was
relevant to our class. The chapter described how Ned Stark, Lord of Winterfell,
sought peace and solace in the godswood. Earlier in the semester, our class
discussed sacred places. The godswood is Ned’s sacred place. Ned did not choose
the godswood; the godswood chose Ned. It is described as “a dark, primal place, three acres of old
forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. It
smelled of moist earth and decay… This was a place of deep silence and brooding
shadows…” (Martin 22). The
environment provided him with enough silence to pray to his gods and reflect
introspectively.
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