Ciao! Ho trovato il riassunto di quello che dovrebbe essere il primo capitolo di Sam in AFfC.

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Sam 1

The chapter opens with Sam reading about the Others below Castle Black. It is dusty and makes his eyes water. He doesn’t know how long he has been reading, he is beastly tired but can’t stop reading, saying just one more page, etc. His last meal was bread and cheese. He looks at the empty platter and sees a mouse with black eyes and grey fur feasting on the crumbs. He thinks he should kill it because mice eat paper and ruin the books, but it is so little and hungry, how can he worry about a few crumbs? Sam tries to crush it with a book: Septon Jorquen’s ‘Annals of the Black Centaur’ a book that covers the 9 years that Orbert Caswell was lord commander. Each day has a page in the book and begins with Orbert in the privy. The books slips out of his hand and the mouse escapes, which relieves Sam.

Sam figures he has spent a day down here and that Jon would be wondering where he was, but Aemon would understand, that you could fall right into a book. He thinks he should bring a cushion and that he could sleep down here behind four chests of loose pages that had been orphaned from their parent books, but does not want to abandon Aemon to Clydas.

Sam climbs the stairs from the wormways and it’s a snowy day outside. There is a small army of men crawling over the ice a quarter of the way up, they are working on rebuilding the switchback stair to meet up with the remnants of the old one. Jon has the builders working day & night and Sam has heard some complaining.

Sam thinks that there were dragons here 200 years ago and that they could have just flown to the top of the wall. Queen Alysanne came here on Silverwing and Jaehaerys her king had come after her riding his own. He wonders if Silverwing could have left an egg behind or if Stannis found one on Dragonstone. And if Stannis did, how does he think he could ‘quicken’ it. Baelor’s prayers and other Targaryen attempts using sorcery only brought ‘farce and tragedy’.

Dolorous Edd meets Sam coming to fetch him, Jon wants to speak with him, after Jon’s done with Gilly. Edd says if his wet nurse looked like Gilly, he would still be nursing, that his wet nurse had wiskers. Pyp replies that most goats have whiskers as him and Grenn walk up with longbows in hand. Sam says there was a mouse, and Edd sighs and says they only ate mice on feast days when he was a lad. As the youngest he always got the meatless tail.

One of Jon’s first orders was daily archery drills for the entire garrison, even cooks & stewards. Val has been watching the practice from her tower window in the King’s tower and the name ‘Sam the Seducer’ is joked about. Pyp makes a comment that Jon doesn’t have time anymore for them and that they saved Jon from Lord Janos putting him naked ranging on a mule.

Jon practices everyday in the yard with sword. When asked why by Sam, Jon presses Longclaw into Sam’s hand, and shows him the lightness, balance and the ripples in the metal. Spell-forged and razor sharp almost indestructible, that the swordsman should be as good as his sword, and that Jon’s not yet Valyrian steel.

Since Stannis has claimed the Kings towers, Jon had taken Donal Noye’s modest quarters behind the armory for himself. Sam meets Gilly rushing past, looking scared.

She pulls away from Sam and he asks about the babes. Dalla’s boy cried all last night, he cries when he wants to be fed. Gilly’s boy almost never cries. Gilly says she has to go, that she must feed them or she’ll be leaking.

Sam picks up the many books he’s brought up, one of them, a thick volume of tales/legends from the east called Colloquo Votar’s ‘Jade Compendium’ was brought at Aemon’s command. It is undamaged. The other named book, Maester Thomax’s ‘Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen From Exile to Apotheosis, With a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons’ is damaged in the drop, making the picture of Balerion muddy along with some other pages. Apparently Gilly has been flustering him and gave him ‘risings’, especially when talking about her breasts and such.

Two guards are standing sentry outside of the armory, Hairy Hal and Mully. Ghost is stretched out under the anvil chewing an ox bone to get to the marrow and looks up at Sam as he walks by. When Sam enters, Jon is reading a parchment. Mormont’s raven sits on his shoulder, and seems as if it is reading too. When the raven sees Sam enter is flies to him and cries ‘Corn, corn’.

Sam shifts his books and takes his free hand and reaches into a sack of corn Jon keeps by the door for the bird. The raven lands on his wrist and pecks at a kernel, breaking through Sam’s glove and skin. Jon still bears scars from the Orwell’s eagle, he refers to the raven as ‘wretch’.

Jon shows him the letter, called a paper shield, written by Aemon and splotchy due to his blindness. It is a letter to King Tommen. Jon talks about when Tommen fought Bran in Winterfell, that now Bran’s dead and Tommen sits the Iron Throne. Sam thinks again of his vow to coldhands and keeps quiet. Jon has not signed the letter, it is worthless he says. The Lannisters would not help the Old Bear and now the watch has been helping Stannis. The letter says that the watch has only helped Stannis defend the wall, not his rebellion. Sam thinks that Tywin would not want people to say that Tommon played with his toys while Stannis defended the realm, it would bring scorn on the House Lannister.

Jon says he wants to bring destruction and death on the Lannisters, not scorn. Sam and the letter say they aren’t Stannis’ men. Jon says he’s given Stannis shelter, food, the Nightfort and allowed the wildings to settle in the gift. That Stannis thinks it is not enough, and pleasing two kings is almost impossible.

Sam says it could mean the end of the watch if Tywin thinks they betrayed him; perhaps if Stannis won the north, but he can’t convince himself of the possibility. The watch sent out ravens to all the northern lords to declare for Stannis and come join him. Only the one sent to Karhold came back. Sam and Jon decide a paper shield is better than none, and Jon signs the letter.

Sam asks why Gilly was crying when she left. Val, called the wilding princess by the men, sent her to ask for Mance’s life again. Jon promised he would speak to Stannis again but he has no hope; a king’s duty is to defend the realm but Mance attacked the realm, and Stannis won’t forget it. That Ned Stark said Stannis was a just man. It was never said Stannis is forgiving. Jon would rather take Mance’s life himself since his life belongs to the watch.

Pyp has heard that Mel wants Mance’s king’s blood to wake a dragon. No one knows where they will find a sleeping dragon, and Jon says it is nonsense, that Mance’s blood is no more royal than his (Jon’s) own. Mance never had a crown or throne, that he is a brigand. Brigand’s blood holds no power. Mormont’s raven looks up from the floor and screams ‘blood’. Jon ignores it.

Jon tells Sam he is sending Gilly and her babe away and that his milk brother will need another wet nurse. Sam thinks goat’s milk could work in the time being.

Sam has been looking for precedents for other boy commanders of the watch. There have been four others younger than Jon when they were chosen. Osric Stark was ten and served for 60 years. All four were brothers, sons or bastards of the King in the North.

Sam talks about his search for info on the Others. The oldest books are from after the Andals came. The first men used runes on rocks. So that means that all the info on the Age of Heroes and the Dawn Age comes from books written thousands of years letter. There are discrepancies, hundred year old kings, knights before there were knights, etc. The oldest list of the watch’s lord commanders only shows 674 commanders.

Dragon glass is mentioned. During the age of heroes, the children of the forest gave the watch 100 obsidian daggers every year. (Then follows a recap of what he know of them from AGOT-ASOS). The Others armor is immune to ordinary blades, but their swords are so cold they shatter steel. Fire dismays them and they are ‘vulnerable’ to obsidian.

Sam had found one tale of the Long Night that speaks of the last hero using a blade of dragonsteel to slay the others. That the others cold not stand against it. Jon asks if Dragonsteel and Valyrian steel are the same and Sam thought the same. Jon wonders if the realm can be saved by convincing the lords of the Seven Kingdoms to turn over their Valyrian blades, and laughs saying it would be impossible. Sam has not found out who the Others are yet, there are hundreds of books to be read, and Sam my be reading the wrong ones. He needs more time.

Jon says there is no more time, Sam is going with Gilly to Oldtown with 102 year old Aemon and Gilly’s baby. Clydas will tend the ravens, sick & wounded. Sam is worried about frail Aemon on the sea voyage but Jon says the risk is greater here, as Stannis knows of Aemon’s house and Stannis in need king’s blood for Mel’s spells. Dareon will meet them at Easwatch and Jon hopes his songs will recruit some men down south. From Eastwatch they will sail on the ‘Blackbird’ to Braavos. There, they must get passage to Oldtown. If Sam wants to claim Gilly’s boy as his bastard, he can send them to Horn Hill. Otherwise Aemon will get them a servants spot in the Citadel.

Sam thinks his mother & sisters will help Gilly and he can write a letter so he can avoid going himself. That Dareon can go to Olotown, not him. Jon says he needs Sam to become his new maester. Here Sam flashes back and we find out that his father had him manacled hand and foot to a wall for 3 days and 3 nights to have Sam swear to not choose a life of servitude. Sam doesn’t want to be a maester, they cut up corpses in Oldtown.

Jon says he needs to go. Maester Mullin at the Shadow Tower is a fighter, not a scholar, and Maester Harmune at Eastwatch is a drunk. Jon will ask for more Maesters also. Jon starts to become stern at Sam’s objections, his eyes are grey eyes hard as ice. That Lord Randyll’s objections that Tarlys do not serve petty lords is moot. Sam has no father anymore, only brothers and his duty is to the realm. They leave tomorrow, an hour before sunrise. Jon also orders Sam not to call himself craven anymore. That Sam won’t try to hide his fear, he will ‘obey’. ‘Obey’ says the raven.

This plan is as much as Ameon’s as Jon’s. Sam can’t say farewells, it must be kept quiet. He is to meet them by the lichyard and hour before first light. Sam thinks he could hide. Perhaps down with the books, but that would be the first place they would look. He could go beyond the wall, they would not think to look for him there, but then the wildlings would get him and kill him slowly.

Sam goes to the rookery to Aemon and gives him Jon’s letter. Sam blurts out all his feelings and fears to the old master. Aemon says his own father (Maekar) had the same objections, that King Daeron, Aemon’s grandfather sent him to the Citadel, as too many dragons is as dangerous as to few dragons. That Daeron, as is Lord Snow, was right about it. (The ravens all begin calling out ‘snow’.)

Sam thinks Aemon is trapped like himself, that Aemon will die at sea and possibly Gilly’s boy too. He wonders if Jon is trying to kill them all.

The next morning, Sam saddles the mare he rode from Horn Hill, and goes to the lichyard where two, two-wheeled wayns are waiting along with 12 seasoned rangers led by Black Jack Bulwer. As they see him, Kedge Whiteye curses (he learn he lost a bet Sam would come willingly.)

One of the wayns is meant to hold Aemon, Gilly and the babe. It heaped with furs and has a leather awning. The other wayn is for supplies, clothing, and a chest of rare old books Aemon thinks the Citadel does not have. (Sam had spent half the night looking for them from a list. He found only one book in four.)

Aemon comes out wrapped in a bearskin, and is helped by Clydas. A gust of wind almost blows them over and Sam comes to help. He thinks another gust could blow him over the wall. Aemon recollects that it is always warm in Oldtown, when he was a young novice there was an inn on an island in the Honeywine where he would go. It would be pleasant to sip cider there once again.

After, Aemon is put in the cart, Gilly comes out with the babe. She has been crying again. Jon and Dolorous Edd come soon after. Aemon tells Lord Snow that he has left a book called the ‘Jade Compendium’ for Jon in Aemon’s chambers. A Volantene traveler named Colloquo Votar who traveled to the east and toured the lands of the Jade Sea wrote it. Aemon says there is a passage he wants Jon to read, that Clydas has marked it for Jon. Jon says he will read it. Aemon says that knowledge is a weapon. Jon should arm himself with it before riding into battle.

Jon instructs Black Jack to be quick but take no foolish risks getting to Eastwatch. See that those in the wayn are warm and well fed. Gilly says Jon should do the same for Mance’s boy, find a wet nurse, and don’t he dare name him until he’s past 2 years. Jon calls her ‘my lady’, and Gilly flashes anger saying she is a mother, not a lady. Craster’s wife & daughter and a mother.

Left Hand Lew (one of the 12 rangers) is anxious to go. Sam is sad to leave Castle Black and thinks he may not see it again. Sam takes leave of Jon and Edd. Edd says Sam’s boat won’t sick, only the boats that Edd goes on sink. Jon remembers the first time he saw Gilly, she was scared of Ghost, but it was Craster who she wasn’t scared of that was the danger. Jon tells Sam to take care of them, he smiles a sad strange smile, and tells Sam to pull his hood up, since the snowflakes are melting in Sam’s hair.

(End of Chapter)

FINE SPOILER

Azz, se lo è davvero... .... good job!

Traduttoriiiii!!!!!!!

Grande Koorlick

Grazie mille Koorlick!

Dal riassunto sembra proprio in bel capitolo!

Ciao

Ho letto solo l'inizio... sembra promettente! Grazie Koorlick

GRAZIE KOORLICK!!!!

Grazie 1000!!!!!!!!!!

sembra interessante, ma devo leggerlo più attentamente!!!!

thks Koorlick !!!

Thanx!!!!

Si può sapere da dove proviene, cioè in quale occasione è stato letto da Martin? Giusto per avere un idea.

questo capitolo viene prima dei capitoli di Jon e qualche chicca c'è.

Si può sapere da dove proviene, cioè in quale occasione è stato letto da Martin? Giusto per avere un idea.

Ohi, mi sorprendo di te, che sei sempre il più informato!

Il riassunto l'ho trovato su ezboard, e dovrebbe trattarsi del capitolo "regalato" da Martin per Natale.

...e sì, naturalmente, il capitolo viene prima di quello del secondo di Jon (che conoscevamo già).

Hai ragione Koorlick, infatti l'ho trovato regolarmente postato su Ranland.

Accidenti mi pento di non aver contribuito questa volta. E' molto succoso.

Si ipotizza che Gilly abbia scambiato suo figlio con il figlio di Mance e che quindi sia il figlio di Mance che se ne sta andando verso il sud, ma è una teoria motlo ocntestata perchè non se ne capisce il motivo.

Molto, molto interessante il discorso sul "dragonsteel" che potrebbe essere l'antenato del acciaio di valyria....e interessante anche il libro che Aemon ha lasciato da leggere a Jon.

Altrattanto interessanti i riferimenti a summerhall e al motivo per cui Aemon fu mandato alla cittadella.

Randyll Tarly è VERAMENTE un gran figlio di p*****a!!!!

io credevo che dragonsteel fosse l'acciaio di Valyria, e invece è l'antenato ?