The Sworn Sword
Novel by George R. R. Martin
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Search complete. 27 mentions across 6 episodes found for "The Sworn Sword".
Oct 23, 2026
Daniel RomanHOST
yeah totally i i feel like so these leaks they originated on reddit we don't know where they came from we don't know how legit they are i we're kind of kind of go through a few parts of it and talk about how legit because there are a few things in it where i'm like i could see that and a few things were like i don't know about this thing uh here so it'll be kind of fun to work through them so I kind of have to give like an obligatory spoiler warning here to even talk about these.
Daniel RomanHOST
We have to talk about the sworn sword, which is the second Duncan egg novella a little bit.
Daniel RomanHOST
We're not going to just like outright spoil the whole thing.
Daniel RomanHOST
But if you don't know anything about it, you'll probably pick some stuff up through this conversation.
Marq NettlesHOST
We are going to be at a lady-based castle in Dorne or the city nearby.
Marq NettlesHOST
So...
Marq NettlesHOST
i can see the whole first episode just being dedicated towards that and it you know kind of fills up some space not to say it's filler but uh the sworn sword the second novella is not a as dense as probably the first novella in the third one so this may take the first maybe even that episode and a half of them just being indoors
Daniel RomanHOST
You know, I don't really think about that because these are also half an hour episodes again, just like season one.
ElianaHOST
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ElianaHOST
in The Sworn Sword-
ChloeHOST
Yes
ElianaHOST
... and, like, how kind of invasive that is, and seeing how forceful it is with Pycelle here that they even, like, nick his skin and are threatening his life during the shaving process.
speaker_2HOST
Right, way back.
speaker_1HOST
Season 2 is adapting the second novella titled The Sworn Sword.
speaker_1HOST
Ira Parker is back as showrunner.
speaker_1HOST
Peter Claffey returns as Ser Duncan the Tall, this massive, somewhat naive hedge knight, and Dexter Sol Ansell is back as his squire, Egg, and they are doing it in six half-hour episodes.
speaker_2HOST
The adaptation risk for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is its severe lack of length and scale.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, it's tiny.
speaker_2HOST
The Sworn Sword is barely over 100 pages long.
speaker_2HOST
How do you construct six episodes of premium HBO television from a story that short without the pacing feeling incredibly stretched and hungry for plot?
speaker_0HOST
Oh, they were brilliant.
speaker_1HOST
In the novellas, the dynamic between these two is the entire engine of the story.
speaker_1HOST
Dunk is this enormous, slightly naive, intensely earnest hedge knight trying to navigate a very cynical world.
speaker_0HOST
And Egg is this small, fiercely intelligent child burdened by a massive secret.
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speaker_1HOST
But if the television show is introducing written but unpublished lore directly from the hand of the creator, the television show instantly elevates itself to the status of a primary text.
speaker_0HOST
Wow.
speaker_1HOST
To possess the complete narrative of Dunk and Egg, reading the novellas is no longer sufficient.
speaker_1HOST
Engagement with the HBO series becomes mandatory.
Daniel RomanHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Daniel RomanHOST
So for people who haven't read, we can talk about this without like wicked spoilers, but essentially A Night of the Seven Kingdoms 2, it's based on this novella, The Sworn Sword, where Dunk gets caught in a land dispute between these two nobles who each own a castle next door to each other.
Daniel RomanHOST
And they're arguing over who owns the river in the middle of them.
Daniel RomanHOST
And it's in the middle of a really bad drought.
Marq NettlesHOST
I heard George R.R. Martin was like, hey, he was probably so impressed by the job they did in House of Dragons Season 1.
Marq NettlesHOST
He was like, hey, I want you guys to keep it going.
Marq NettlesHOST
Here's some unpublished work that I didn't add into the novellas.
Marq NettlesHOST
A little more context to the story and hopefully expanding upon that part where Duncan, a kind of go to Dorn in between novellas one and two.
Jack PosobiecHOST
It's so good.
Jack PosobiecHOST
And, and also, Caboose, if you, um, if you like Knight of the Seven Kingdoms that much, um, highly recommend the other, uh, short stories/novellas by George R. Martin in that series, The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight.
Jack PosobiecHOST
Um, so he's got-
Blake NeffHOST
We're getting TV versions of them soon, so.