Ygritte

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 subsequently appeared in Martin's A Storm of Swords. She is a wildling from the lands beyond the great Wall on the continent Westeros. Her kind are called Wildlings because they are outside of the feudal order of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall: she calls them Free Folk. Ygritte is portrayed by Rose Leslie in the HBO television adaptation. 2Character description 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. 2Novel storylines 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 Halfhan