Another alt. Interpretation. The "Bear" is a rough Northerner, like the Mormonts, Umbers or Starks. The "Honey" referring to her being a blonde, an Andel Southerner, like the Lannisters, who are notably less hirsute and more clean-shaven. She prefers some more fey, less threatening guy. Like... A certain Tyrell?
Well, if the honey refers to the color of the maiden's hair, what did the bear lick? That interpretation is interesting so I would like to know what that interpretation says the bear licked.
this is actualy good, taking every factors into count, even if those kind of trees and castle arent found in essos. of course the little reference to sean bean and the lanister shield with the armor(even if most agree that jaime is the maiden fair) are apreciated personalisation.
I love this song(and your rendition).I believe the song has different meanings in terms of symbolism(like Jorah being the Bear and Dany being "the maiden fair)It also could be how Sansa wanted a handsome knight(like Joffrey and Willas Tyrell(or Loras Tyrell in the show)and got protectors like the Hound and Tyrion Lannister,who,while not handsome,protected her much better.
Well im pretty sure the bolton men was like a we got a bear black and covered with hair and we got a maideno fair i wonder if the bear will lick the gold out of her hair
Ignore all the people saying your interpretation is wrong. There's definitely more to the song than this but honestly it's just meant to be a song for tavern bards, there's not any real concrete meaning behind it. It might relate to events in the books but your interpretation is as good as any when it comes to canon.
It's quite a bit older than that. I think its almost 100 years old in Westeros. I feel that its about any somewhat ugly person who manages to attract a more attractive person. You can read the song as being about sex, or simply the dancing at the fair as time spent deciding that he is better than a knight for any reason. You can see this kind of relationship with basically any of Jorah's relationships with his wife or dany, brienne and jaime, and the hound and sansa.
Dude, Jimmay is right XD (Jimmay's comment: "I hope you know that in this song the bear is a member of the Mormont family and the maid with honey in her hair was a beautiful woman with blond hair") Although I don't know who the Mormonts are or whatever this is taken out of, it's quite obvious it's not about a bear licking the honey off someone's hair. Who the fuck would have honey in her hair. Other than that, the animation itself is great, and it's funny. FEED US MOAR :3
*spoilers* It seems to me about Jorah and Denerys; the honey in her hair might imply she was blonde, in ADWD Tyrion refers to Jorah as their 'dancing bear' (or something similar, this is from memory) to the slaver to persuade him to buy Jorah, even referencing the song. The maiden (Dany) refuses to dance with (fuck) Jorah though until she finds out his betrayal still keeps him as her "bear" to protect her.
Well it's an analogy to their relationship, as it is to Sandor Clegane as the bear to Sansa's maiden, and Brienne to Jaime. It's not literally about her in the story but it's meant to explain their stories.
He means in a literary sense. All of the songs elaborate on and foreshadow the plots of the characters, its pretty plainly expressed in the writing. He doesn't mean the people of Westeros are writing songs about the characters.
I don't remember where the song's age ever showed in the books. Granted the 5 books are approx 4 times longer than the bible but I don't remember if they ever discussed it being sang at any single event.
I heard that the bear is actually a metaphor for people with deformities; ie, circus freaks who would dance at fairs. It's about the fact that the maiden got over her prejudices. But personally I like to think of it as a literal bear. it's more fantasy.
The song is a fairly popular song in Westerosi culture, from even before Brienne was born. Yes, that scene works as a metaphor, one of the many. But the song is definitely not about her, it was used to foreshadow that event though.
Wow you really brought this into percpective... I always wondered why she would sigh and stuff when he licked her honey from her hair... Always confused me but this makes sense (in a nonsensible way)
This song truly is about Jorah Mormont and his second wife. Also there is a lot of sexual innuendo, so the happy ending with setting sun is kinda funny :D
The bear is a ugly brutish beast type and the maiden well not sure that needs explanation it doesn't apply to Rhaegar and Lyanna at all. You're missing the point of the song it's about how Knights aren't as honorable or helpful as the songs and stories claim the maiden ask for help from knights but gets none the bear comes to her aid instead. The people it fits most is Sandor and Sansa you could also say Tyrion and Tysha, Jaime and Brienne, Jorah and Daenerys. It's basically beauty and the beast.
Lol @ some of the PG interpretations of this song. The lyrics literally include: She kicked and wailed, the maid so fair, But he licked the honey from her hair. Her hair! Her hair! He licked the honey from her hair! Then she sighed and squealed and kicked the air! My bear! She sang. My bear so fair! If that subtext is lost on you, you're beyond help.
I suspect the honey in her hair is figurative, no? The bear having never seen a blond woman before, methinks. Of course the bear could also stand in for a gruff man seizing a lady with a different kind of honey.
I don't think it's even that literal. "The Rains of Castamere" talks about the Lannisters and Reynes as lions. Using that logic "the Bear" is probably a Mormont ancestor.
The books led me to believe this is mostly a bawdy song, so I'm guessing the bear is a gruff man, and he eventually woos the maid in order to get her "honey".
I think this song symbolises the relationship Sansa has with the hound, she like Knights and pretty lords but it's the ugly "bear" who saves and helps her and she later starts to like him (not in a romantic way)
The song exists in the story before either relationships began. I think it is about Jorah Mormont and the woman he spent all the family money on and was disowned over.
Another alt. Interpretation. The "Bear" is a rough Northerner, like the Mormonts, Umbers or Starks. The "Honey" referring to her being a blonde, an Andel Southerner, like the Lannisters, who are notably less hirsute and more clean-shaven. She prefers some more fey, less threatening guy. Like... A certain Tyrell?
Well, if the honey refers to the color of the maiden's hair, what did the bear lick? That interpretation is interesting so I would like to know what that interpretation says the bear licked.
EvilerOMEGA it was not the hair on her head
@@EvilerOMEGAMaybe "licked the hair" meant just that he kinda sniffed and played with it etc, just my opinion
Never knew Mordor is north of Winterfell :D
😄😄 the more you know...
That's the beauty of metaphor. Could go either ways.
who thought it was a good idea to let a bear into the fair in the first place?
clearly, three boys and a goat. i think the goat is the leader.
First Dunk & Egg Tale happens around 100 years before A Game of Thrones, and there they where already singin' this song.
this is actualy good, taking every factors into count, even if those kind of trees and castle arent found in essos.
of course the little reference to sean bean and the lanister shield with the armor(even if most agree that jaime is the maiden fair) are apreciated personalisation.
Well there are many people it could apply to. Sandor or Lothor Brune could be the bear with Sansa being the Maiden Fair. Maybe the Goat is Vargo Hoat.
LOL THAT WAS PERFECT
I liked the honey hair part 😂
I love this song(and your rendition).I believe the song has different meanings in terms of symbolism(like Jorah being the Bear and Dany being "the maiden fair)It also could be how Sansa wanted a handsome knight(like Joffrey and Willas Tyrell(or Loras Tyrell in the show)and got protectors like the Hound and Tyrion Lannister,who,while not handsome,protected her much better.
Or Lothor Brune.
This is the best version i've heard
The song is at least older than 209 AL (after Aegon's Landing), when it was already sung. Jorah was born around 255AL
Well im pretty sure the bolton men was like a we got a bear black and covered with hair and we got a maideno fair i wonder if the bear will lick the gold out of her hair
Ignore all the people saying your interpretation is wrong. There's definitely more to the song than this but honestly it's just meant to be a song for tavern bards, there's not any real concrete meaning behind it. It might relate to events in the books but your interpretation is as good as any when it comes to canon.
It's quite a bit older than that. I think its almost 100 years old in Westeros. I feel that its about any somewhat ugly person who manages to attract a more attractive person. You can read the song as being about sex, or simply the dancing at the fair as time spent deciding that he is better than a knight for any reason. You can see this kind of relationship with basically any of Jorah's relationships with his wife or dany, brienne and jaime, and the hound and sansa.
Realy nice work, good job! :D
Dude, Jimmay is right XD (Jimmay's comment:
"I hope you know that in this song the bear is a member of the Mormont family and the maid with honey in her hair was a beautiful woman with blond hair")
Although I don't know who the Mormonts are or whatever this is taken out of, it's quite obvious it's not about a bear licking the honey off someone's hair. Who the fuck would have honey in her hair.
Other than that, the animation itself is great, and it's funny. FEED US MOAR :3
Ahh, great video! Great job!
The animation is perfect, not too childish at all! :-)
tehmanofmusic-yes, it is a bawdy drinking song...the "honey" being on a hairy place farther down ;-)
Yes, but imagine an animation with THAT on youtube...
awesome
Well yes and Jorah and Danny and Sansa and Sandor
Cool/Cute Animation!
Who in their right mind would hit thumbs down on this?!
i loled at this being a literal translation and not the oral sex version. Got a naive charm.
*spoilers*
It seems to me about Jorah and Denerys; the honey in her hair might imply she was blonde, in ADWD Tyrion refers to Jorah as their 'dancing bear' (or something similar, this is from memory) to the slaver to persuade him to buy Jorah, even referencing the song. The maiden (Dany) refuses to dance with (fuck) Jorah though until she finds out his betrayal still keeps him as her "bear" to protect her.
The literal translation of the song
Obviously not, but in any book there are symbolisms, and in A Song there are many, so much anyone can see at least a handful.
Well it's an analogy to their relationship, as it is to Sandor Clegane as the bear to Sansa's maiden, and Brienne to Jaime. It's not literally about her in the story but it's meant to explain their stories.
I highly doubt it's a song about honey in the hair on her head, though...
Lovely, the PG version of that song. I'd still love to know what exactly inspired this song in the pre-book world of ASoIaF...
Beautiful animation, lol
Honey in her hair means she has strawberry blonde hair...
He means in a literary sense. All of the songs elaborate on and foreshadow the plots of the characters, its pretty plainly expressed in the writing. He doesn't mean the people of Westeros are writing songs about the characters.
You clearly don't get the metaphor here...
Much better than the show's version
OMG. My sweet SanSan is everywhere!
This song appears in The Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas which take place 89 years before Game of Thrones. So you are right :P
The song must be based on the Mormont family since there crest is the bear, from Bear island.
I don't remember where the song's age ever showed in the books. Granted the 5 books are approx 4 times longer than the bible but I don't remember if they ever discussed it being sang at any single event.
I heard that the bear is actually a metaphor for people with deformities; ie, circus freaks who would dance at fairs. It's about the fact that the maiden got over her prejudices.
But personally I like to think of it as a literal bear. it's more fantasy.
I hope you know that in this song the bear is a member of the Mormont family and the maid with honey in her hair was a beautiful woman with blond hair
The song is a fairly popular song in Westerosi culture, from even before Brienne was born. Yes, that scene works as a metaphor, one of the many. But the song is definitely not about her, it was used to foreshadow that event though.
lol I love this
Thanks for that because innuendo is so much better when someone explains
I don't think there's any direct correlation... but that's an interesting thought :)
I hope that the tune they pick for the show is half as good as this! Shame there's no way they would use this one.
yeah it is a metaphor, we all got that
I'm not sure in wich book, but there is stated that this song is over a hundred years old by the time of the book's events - if I'm not mistaken.
Wow you really brought this into percpective... I always wondered why she would sigh and stuff when he licked her honey from her hair... Always confused me but this makes sense (in a nonsensible way)
Dude, this is way older than any of them. It was already sung in 209 AL (Aegon's Landing)
Good idea; the song is actually about a member of the Mormont family winning his wife
This song truly is about Jorah Mormont and his second wife. Also there is a lot of sexual innuendo, so the happy ending with setting sun is kinda funny :D
Pssht. The Lannister's would never have a bear as a knight.
I guess you could say it was "Bear"ly a realationship oooooohhhhhhhyyyyeeeaaahhhhh
Yeah I've been thinking is this about Jorah and his second wife?
respect :D
"I've read somewhere that periods attract B-BEARS! BEARS CAN SMELL THE MENSTRUATION!" ----- Brick, Anchorman
LOL :)
Bellissimo
He is not saying that this was created because of Jorah, he is saying that Jorah and his Second Wife are the Literal Representation of the Song.
The bear is lyanna stark the maiden fair is rhaegar targarian however you spell that lol
The bear is a ugly brutish beast type and the maiden well not sure that needs explanation it doesn't apply to Rhaegar and Lyanna at all. You're missing the point of the song it's about how Knights aren't as honorable or helpful as the songs and stories claim the maiden ask for help from knights but gets none the bear comes to her aid instead. The people it fits most is Sandor and Sansa you could also say Tyrion and Tysha, Jaime and Brienne, Jorah and Daenerys. It's basically beauty and the beast.
Lol @ some of the PG interpretations of this song. The lyrics literally include:
She kicked and wailed, the maid so fair,
But he licked the honey from her hair.
Her hair! Her hair!
He licked the honey from her hair!
Then she sighed and squealed and kicked the air!
My bear! She sang. My bear so fair!
If that subtext is lost on you, you're beyond help.
Thormund Giantsbane most likely
That bear is a pimp.
GRRM is apparently quite a cunning linguist. ;-)
you don't say, quiet rain
Is there a full version of that?
sadly no.. :( but what I did is I kept replaying the video just to hear it ;)
If he made the animation like that though it would probably be taken down haha
oh, i was thinking from bear island....
no, the song was sung in dunk and egg and jorah was not even born then
It's jay cutler
Mordor is a bit too hot to be located north to Winterfell.
I suspect the honey in her hair is figurative, no? The bear having never seen a blond woman before, methinks. Of course the bear could also stand in for a gruff man seizing a lady with a different kind of honey.
What genre of music would this be described as? Be as specific as possible if you could.
The sobng is supposed to be old...i think that is about a mormont guy who kidnaped a lanister...
Bolton and the bear
:))) artistule
no, this is an older song. definitely not about danearys.
No, it has heavy symbolism in ASOS...
its probaly a history of a Mormount and a Dornish woman
I don't think it's even that literal. "The Rains of Castamere" talks about the Lannisters and Reynes as lions. Using that logic "the Bear" is probably a Mormont ancestor.
What genre is this
"The Bear and the Maiden Fair is a rather ribald traditional song sung throughout the Seven Kingdoms."
You know the meaning of 'ribald', right?
I never understood the song. I just thought that it was a good song
In ASOS it's a song it's not about any of the characters
There isn't any literal honey...and the 'hair with honey" that he smells isn't the hair on her head, if ya get what I'm sayin.
Didi the same ;D
Is this Dohvabear?
The hair is not the hair of her head... get it? The honey from what hair? :P
The books led me to believe this is mostly a bawdy song, so I'm guessing the bear is a gruff man, and he eventually woos the maid in order to get her "honey".
Oh innocent one...
lol mordor
I more like the Bolton's way of singing this song
/watch?v=vPA0BmlNd20
I think this song symbolises the relationship Sansa has with the hound, she like Knights and pretty lords but it's the ugly "bear" who saves and helps her and she later starts to like him (not in a romantic way)
It could also symbolize Jorah Mormont (from Bear Island) and his fantasies regarding Daenerys Targaryen
The song exists in the story before either relationships began. I think it is about Jorah Mormont and the woman he spent all the family money on and was disowned over.
This song is actually a depiction of sex or a rape using this kind of indirect language... Oh, Martin you dirty little boy...
Ok coomer
he's licking the wrong hair :/
Sandor is a a dog not a bear.
that is a joke
xD
it's just a song it has no meaning more then to be a song
Those Bolton soldiers were better.
No shit, Sherlock.