Game of Throne’s bloody violencethat we love so deeply pales in comparison to the real-life historical tale of medieval England. Dragons? Nope. White snow zombies that no one seems to be taking notice of? Nope. But heaps of beheadings, disembowelments, torture, massacres, killing prostitutes, assassinations, dinner parties that end in everyone dead, noble families that tend to have very bad luck at keeping their heads attached to their torsos and a couple of royals all fighting for the throne? Sure.
Last season’s infamous ‘Red Wedding,’ episode was art imitating life. George RR Martin has admitted he was inspired by the real-life Black Dinner – in which Scotland’s chancellor Sir William Crichton massacred all his dinner guests in 1440. The whole series (book and TV) is in fact loosely based on events and set in the time period during the Wars of the Roses, the civil wars of the mid to late-15th century in medieval England.
Avid GoT watchers will know how Tyrion Lannister got his scar. The scar that spans across most of his face is similar to the one archaeologists found on the skull of a man known as “Towton 25.” The battlefield of Towton was the spot where 28,000 men were claimed to have lost their lives.
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[ Source : TheTelegraph ]
