In this nineteenth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry & Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: How does the Law In Literature inform interpretations of the Dance of the Dragons?
Our analysis this week includes:
- A blow-by-blow breakdown of the Blacks’ response to the Greens’ coup and the varying tragedies that follow.
- A thorough explanation of exactly why Daemon Targaryen, Criston Cole, and Aemond Targaryen all suck so much ass.
- Learned Hands bends the knee once again to Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was.
- We discuss how the varying perspectives of the narrators influence both Fire & Blood and illuminate various issues in the main ASOIAF narrative.
- Merry is finally won over to the idea that Fire & Blood and the Dance of the Dragons and (hopefully) HotD is Good, Actually.
- Clint offers his First Ever ASOIAF Theory about what Blood & Cheese means to the main narrative!
- Our hosts connect the Dance of the Dragons directly to the storytelling surrounding the American Civil War.
- Learned Hands finally touches on the Blackwood-Bracken Feud LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO.
Supplemental reading:
- English Law before the Conquest (Chapter 1) - The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Extensive editing by LittleWolfBird. Bumpers by Frank. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
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