Martin says he began two new Dunk and Egg novellas

Polygon reports that George R.R. Martin told The Hollywood Reporter he began writing two new Dunk and Egg novellas, one set in Winterfell and one set in the Riverlands.

Martin has long said he intends to write a series of Dunk and Egg novellas. In a 2014 blog post he wrote, “It has always been my intent to write a whole series of novellas about Dunk and Egg, chronicling their entire lives,” and noted he had finished three novellas — The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight — collected in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in 2015. He also said he started a fourth for the 2013 anthology Dangerous Women but couldn’t finish it by his deadline, and that the unfinished Winterfell story involved a group he called “the She-Wolves,” with another Riverlands tale under the working title The Village Hero.

Martin’s recent phrasing closely mirrors his earlier comments, and he told The Hollywood Reporter he “began writing two at various points in the past year.” He has previously said he only expects to know more after he delivers The Winds of Winter, and his history with tight deadlines includes barely meeting the submission date for the first Dunk & Egg story for the Legends anthology, which he turned in on Dec. 31st; when the new novellas will be finished remains unknown.

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Culture, George R.r. Martin, Winterfell, Dunk & Egg, Riverlands, Legends Anthology