Ygritte
| Ygritte | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire character Game of Thrones character |
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Rose Leslie as Ygritte
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| First appearance |
Novel: A Clash of Kings (1998) Television: "The Old Gods and the New" (2012) |
| Last appearance |
Novel: A Storm of Swords (2000) Television: "The Children" (2014) |
| Created by | George R. R. Martin |
| Portrayed by |
Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Significant other(s) | Jon Snow (lover) |
| Nationality | Westerosi |
Ygritte is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Introduced in 1998's A Clash of Kings, she is a wildling from the fictional kingdom of Westeros. She subsequently appeared in Martin's A Storm of Swords.
Ygritte is portrayed by Rose Leslie in the HBO television adaptation.
Ygritte is a wildling woman known for her red hair. She is fierce and headstrong. In wildling culture she is known as a spearwife: a woman who is also a warrior.
Ygritte is not a point of view character in the novels, so her actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as Jon Snow.
Ygritte first encounters Jon in A Clash of Kings, when she and her band of wildlings were surprised by a group of rangers led by Qhorin Halfhand. Most of her band is killed, but Jon refrains from killing Ygritte because of her gender, and later lets her go free. She rejoins the wildlings, and is present when Rattleshirt traps Qhorin and Jon. Ygritte speaks up for Jon when he, following Qhorin's orders, changes sides, and again when Mance Rayder doubts Jon's loyalty since he did not inform the wildlings of Lord Commander Mormont's ranging. Jon and Ygritte begin a sexual relationship, and cross the Wall with Styr together on Mance's orders to attack Castle Black from the rear. Ygritte continues to defend Jon, but when Jon changes sides again to return to the Night's Watch, she shoots Jon in the calf with an arrow. Ygritte later attacks Castle Black together with Styr's band, and is killed in the ensuing battle.
Ygritte is played by Rose Leslie in the television adaption of the series of books. Leslie talked about her final scene as Ygritte, saying "I feel like she could have killed him — she could have shot Jon in the heart in one fell swoop. But when it finally came to that moment, she couldn't actually kill him. Even when she's expected to. Even when she wants to."
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