Apologies if you’ve gotten this question before, but today’s CBC analysis made me wonder: is GRRM overegging the pudding a bit on the destruction of the riverlands? Taking this (“A half mile on, green began to creep back into the world once more.”) literally, whole square miles of land have been burned completely. That sounds more like the Western Front in WW1, way beyond the capacity of medieval warfare.

Read the accounts of the

chevauchées of the Hundred Years War, and you’ll change your mind on that. 

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.