Tales of Dunk and Egg · Book 2
The Sworn Sword
- Published
- 30 December 2003
- Pages
- 158
- ISBN-13
- 9781477849293
- Type
- novella
About this book
Originally appearing in the anthology Legends II in late 2003, The Sworn Sword is the shortest of the three novellas at 158 pages, continuing Dunk and Egg's adventures five years after The Hedge Knight.
Its place in Tales of Dunk and Egg
The Sworn Sword is book 2 in the Tales of Dunk and Egg series. It follows The Hedge Knight. It is followed by The Mystery Knight. 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 9781477849293