Welcome back to Game of Thrones to Electric.

Boogaloo, I'm your host, Anthony.

This week, we'll wrap up the Sworn Sword with historians Valerie Garver and Philip Habercern.

Valerie is at Northern Illinois University, and Phil is at Boston University.

For next week, if you're following along in the Bantam Hardback,

Steve and I will cover from the beginning of the mystery night until the end of page 262.

All right, after a short message from our sponsors, you'll hear my conversation with Phil and Val.

With me to talk about the sworn sword is Phil Habercern and Val Garver.

Thank you guys for joining me.

It's my pleasure.

Mine as well.

Now, let's start with you, Val. It's my

understanding that this may be your first entree into these novellas. Is that correct? That is

correct. I had always wanted to read them, and it gave me a good excuse to get started on them.

So, yeah, I enjoyed them.

All right. Now, I asked you to read The Sworn Sword, but I'm wondering if you felt the need to

read the first novella before you jumped into this one. I did because it was clear the second one.

I thought, maybe are they standalone? I started to read the second one. I was like, no, no, no. I got to go back and read the first one. I did because it was clear the second one. I thought maybe are they standalone?

I started to read the second one. I was like, no, no, no. I got to go back and read the first one.

I'm glad I did. Okay. Yeah, I'm glad you did too. I think it tries to, in the same way, like

an episodic television series will sometimes, I guess this was more prevalent in the 80s and 90s,

but it will sometimes kind of remind the viewer what the key relationships are.

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