Tales of Dunk and Egg · Book 1
The Hedge Knight
- Published
- 25 August 1998
- Pages
- 164
- ISBN-13
- 9780976401100
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Hedge Knight, first published in the anthology Legends in 1998, opens George R. R. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas at 164 pages, introducing the hedge knight Dunk and his secretive squire Egg roughly ninety years before A Song of Ice and Fire.
Its place in Tales of Dunk and Egg
The Hedge Knight is book 1 in the Tales of Dunk and Egg series. It is followed by The Sworn Sword. See the full Tales of Dunk and Egg reading order.
Ninety years before Robert Baratheon's rebellion, a huge, penniless, barely literate hedge knight called Dunk takes on a diminutive, cheerfully secretive squire named Egg, and the two of them wander the Seven Kingdoms getting into exactly the kind of trouble a good-hearted, thick-skulled knight-errant and a boy hiding a spectacular secret tend to attract. That secret — Egg is actually Aegon Targaryen, a prince of the royal house travelling incognito — gives George R. R. Martin room to tell smaller, warmer stories…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780976401100