The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire

Jeff Wilson · 03 Aug 2012, 12:51 · from 2012-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:51:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire
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On 8/1/2012 4:43 PM, nate jarvis wrote:
> Everyone SAYS the wall is 8000 years old. There's a bit in one of the
> books where Sam talks about historical claims nor adding up. Actually,
> that same scene might be in two of the books.
>
> The Romans had decent siege technology that would have predated the
> Arab-Chinese technology; isn't Martin's wall a fantasied up version of
> Hadrian's Wall?

Quite possibly. The HBO adaptation has intentionally assigned regional 
British accents (not always successfully) to characters based on their 
analagous places of origin, with Londoner near King's Landing and Scots 
for some wildlings in the mountains far to the north.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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