Green Fork
The Green Fork is one of the three main rivers of the Trident in the Riverlands, the other two being the Blue Fork and the Red Fork. The headwaters of the Green Fork are located in the southern marshes of the Neck, with Greywater Watch on an eastern headwater. The two largest tributaries come together just north of the Twins. The river flows to the southeast, with the kingsroad nearby for much of its course. The Green Fork is joined by the Blue Fork north of Lord Harroway's Town; the Trident then flows to the Bay of Crabs.[1] The only crossing of the Green Fork north of the ruby ford is at the Twins.[2] The river is murky green in color.[3]
Contents
History
About three hundred years before the War of Conquest the Freys began construction of a bridge spanning the northern Green Fork, where it runs high and fast.[4]
Sweetwillow on the Green Fork was attacked by Prince Aemond Targaryen and his dragon Vhagar during the Dance of the Dragons.[5]
Ser Franklyn Frey was well regarded along the Green Fork.[6]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Robb Stark marches the northern army to the Twins, where an alliance between Houses Stark and Frey is concluded.[4] Robb crosses the Green Fork with the northern horse and heads toward Riverrun, while Lord Roose Bolton marches south with the northern foot along the eastern bank of the river. However, Lord Tywin Lannister defeats Roose in the Battle of the Green Fork.[7] Tyrion Lannister notices blackened fields and burned holdfasts near the Green Fork.[8]
A Storm of Swords
Meera Reed tells Bran Stark of the Knight of the Laughing Tree and of a crannogman who paddled a little skin boat down the Green Fork.[9]
The river is swollen when Robb, the King of the Trident, and his army return to the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey.[3] Robb and his forces are then betrayed in the Red Wedding; the wounded Ser Raynald Westerling is last seen throwing himself into the river.[10] Afterward, Catelyn Tully's naked corpse is dumped into the river by the Freys in mockery of House Tully's funeral custom.[11]
A Feast for Crows
Lem hunts the Mad Dog of Saltpans, who had been spotted making his way north along the Green Fork, but the mummers instead doubled-back for the crossroads.[12]
Quotes
They heard the Green Fork before they saw it, an endless susurrus, like the growl of some great beast.[3]
- thoughts of Catelyn Tully
... the river, the swollen Green Fork, growling like a lion in its den.[13]
- thoughts of Arya Stark
References and Notes
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 55, Catelyn VIII.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 59, Catelyn IX.
- ↑ The Princess and the Queen.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 62, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 56, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 24, Bran II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 58, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 50, Arya X.