Salt wife

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In Ironborn culture a salt wife is a concubine. They are the women kidnapped by the ironmnen during raids. An ironborn may keep several salt wives, but only one ironborn "rock wife".[1] Salt wives are bound to their captors in a religious ceremony.[2]

Unlike Dornish paramours, salt wives have a low status in the society of the Iron Islands, on the same level of thralls.

Quotes

Once I might have carried you home as a prize, and kept you to wife whether you willed it or no. The ironmen of old did such things. A man had his rock wife, his true bride, ironborn like himself, but he had his salt wives too, women captured on raids.[3]

- Theon Greyjoy


The Lyseni would have made whores of you, but we have saved you. Now you need only serve one man instead of many. Those who please their captains may be taken as salt wives, an honourable station.[4]

- Victarion Greyjoy, to the girls captured from the Willing Maiden

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