(urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire

Jeff Wilson jwilson at clueland.com
Fri Aug 3 05:51:57 PDT 2012


On 8/1/2012 4:43 PM, nate jarvis wrote:
> Everyone SAYS the wall is 8000 years old. There's a bit in one of the
> books where Sam talks about historical claims nor adding up. Actually,
> that same scene might be in two of the books.
>
> The Romans had decent siege technology that would have predated the
> Arab-Chinese technology; isn't Martin's wall a fantasied up version of
> Hadrian's Wall?

Quite possibly. The HBO adaptation has intentionally assigned regional 
British accents (not always successfully) to characters based on their 
analagous places of origin, with Londoner near King's Landing and Scots 
for some wildlings in the mountains far to the north.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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