Some Scottish Red Weddings
The theme of sacrosanct hospitality being murderously abused looms large in Scottish history and legend. Content note: murder; spousal abuse. NB this post also contains spoilers for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel A Storm of Swords, and Game of Thrones episode 3.9 “The Rains of Castamere”. In one of the most famous and shocking scenes in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and the TV adaptation Game of Thrones, Walder Frey, Lord of the Twins, has his
