Var det verkligen fläsk?

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I En dans med drakar finns en scen där Bran och företaget ligger norr om väggen. Coldhands ger mat och säger att han dödade en gris, men det hade varit ganska länge sedan de hade sett något spel alls och också ...

This came right after Bran via Summer saw the party of Night's Watch deserters who Coldhands had slaughtered. The dismemberment was described in lurid detail, and seemed to be more than required to kill them (legs hacked off, etc).

Var det verkligen fläsk de åt?

    
uppsättning Paul 02.05.2018 05:46

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Kapitlet berättas från Bran perspektiv. När han vaknar upp säger Meera att det är en gris.

Falling snow and feasting wolves began to dim. Warmth beat against his face, comforting as a mother's kisses. Fire, he thought, smoke. His nose twitched to the smell of roasting meat. And then the forest fell away, and he was back in the longhall again, back in his broken body, staring at a fire. Meera Reed was turning a chunk of raw red flesh above the flames, letting it char and spit. "Just in time," she said. Bran rubbed his eyes with the heel of his hand and wriggled backwards against the wall to sit. "You almost slept through supper. The ranger found a sow."

Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. Wisps of smoke rose from between his fingers. "Hodor," he muttered between bites, "hodor, hodor." His sword lay on the earthen floor beside him. Jojen Reed nipped at his own joint with small bites, chewing each chunk of meat a dozen times before swallowing.

The ranger killed a pig. Coldhands stood beside the door, a raven on his arm, both staring at the fire. Reflections from the flames glittered off four black eyes. He does not eat, Bran remembered, and he fears the flames.
A Dance with Dragons, Bran I

Men vi får massor av tips om att detta kanske inte är fallet. Först och främst är det norr om väggen, en ödemark. Varje bosättning som de finner är övergiven. Vilka är chanserna att hitta en gris, en domesticerad gris?

Olikheten med detta förstärks av det faktum att, som du påpekade, finns det lättillgängligt kött i form av döda rangrar närliggande.

"What happened to the men? The foes behind us?"

"They will not trouble you."

"Who were they? Wildlings?"

Meera turned the meat to cook the other side. Hodor was chewing and swallowing, muttering happily under his breath. Only Jojen seemed aware of what was happening as Coldhands turned his head to stare at Bran. "They were foes."

Men of the Night's Watch. "You killed them. You and the ravens. Their faces were all torn, and their eyes were gone." Coldhands did not deny it. "They were your brothers. I saw. The wolves had ripped their clothes up, but I could still tell. Their cloaks were black. Like your hands."
ibid

Så alldeles är det mycket osannolikt att det är en gris.

  • Det är nästan omöjligt att hitta en gris
  • Det var gott om annat kött att tjäna som mat istället.
  • svaret ges 02.05.2018 08:36
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    För att komplettera @ JADs svar , finns det faktiskt lite förskuggning medan Bran är warged till Summer när han kommer över de döda. Kapitlet hänvisar till de döda som kött mer än någonting och Bran tycktes till och med tycka om smaken av den.

    Sleep would not come, could not come. Instead there was wind, the biting cold, moonlight on snow, and fire. He was back inside Summer, long leagues away, and the night was rank with the smell of blood. The scent was strong. A kill, not far. The flesh would still be warm. Slaver ran between his teeth as the hunger woke inside him. Not elk. Not deer. Not this.
    ...
    Men. The stink of them filled the world. Alive, they had been as many as the fingers on a man's paw, but now they were none. Dead. Done. Meat. Cloaked and hooded, once, but the wolves had torn their clothing into pieces in their frenzy to get at the flesh. Those who still had faces wore thick beards crusted with ice and frozen snot. The falling snow had begun to bury what remained of them, so pale against the black of ragged cloaks and breeches. Black.
    ...
    The direwolf did not care. They were meat. He was hungry.
    ...
    The prey as well. He went from man to man, sniffing, before settling on the biggest, a faceless thing who clutched black iron in one hand. His other hand was missing, severed at the wrist, the stump bound up in leather. Blood flowed thick and sluggish from the slash across his throat. The wolf lapped at it with his tongue, licked the ragged eyeless ruin of his nose and cheeks, then buried his muzzle in his neck and tore it open, gulping down a gobbet of sweet meat. No flesh had ever tasted half as good.
    A Dance with Dragons, Bran I

    Strax efter att han haft något av köttet själv väckte han av flammorna och lagade kött och berättade om "grisen". Det är viktigt att notera att det här kommer senare i berättelsen efter att Bran har kämpat för att sätta sina egna behov ifrån sig Summer's, vilket också var att han verkligen njöt av att äta den nya döden tidigare.

    "I'm sick of frogs." Meera was a frogeater from the Neck, so Bran couldn't really blame her for catching so many frogs, he supposed, but even so... "I wanted to eat the deer." For a moment he remembered the taste of it, the blood and the raw rich meat, and his mouth watered. I won the fight for it. I won.
    ...
    "I will. I'll remember. I could go back and do it now, if you like. I won't forget this time." But I'll eat my deer first, and fight with those little wolves some more.
    Jojen shook his head. "No. Best stay, and eat. With your own mouth. A warg cannot live on what his beast consumes."
    A Storm of Swords, Bran I

        
    svaret ges 02.05.2018 10:35
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    Som motsatt punkt: grisar flyr från gårdar och lever ganska bra i vildmarken. De kan vara störande djur, faktiskt. Det har funnits gårdar norr om väggen, så ibland kan grisar ha runnit och startat en befolkning. De kan till och med förutbeställa Wallen.

        
    svaret ges 02.05.2018 22:12