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The Sworn Sword is the second in George R. R. Martin's Tales of Dunk & Egg, following the the story of Dunk and Egg a year and a half after the events of The Hedge Knight. It was first published in the Legends II anthology series, a collection of short stories by authors such as Tad Williams, Orson Scott Card, and Neil Gaiman.
As before the story's focus is almost exclusively on Dunk and Egg and their progression through life. The novella focuses on the difficult path of chivalry when taking part in petty feuds and casual injustices are part and parcel of what it means to be a sworn man in the feudal Seven Kingdoms.

Summary.

The story opens 18 months after the occasions of The Hedge Knight. The two are amidst a frightful summer dry spell in the Reach (which itself took after the Great Spring Sickness). Dunk has sworn his sword to Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast, an old, done knight who harps on the double misfortunes of his family and its old respects. Worrying the bones of blurred grandness, Ser Eustace draws Dunk and Egg into a possibly lethal clash with his neighbor, Lady Rohanne Webber.

Dunk and Egg come back to Standfast from a short adventure to Dosk to get truly necessary supplies. They find a nearby stream had all of a sudden become scarce while they were no more. Suspicious, and unheeding of Ser Bennis' notice to allow it to sit unbothered, they go to explore. As they take after the riverbed upstream they find that laborers of Lady Rohanne have fabricated a dam. At the point when the laborers decline to expel the dam Ser Bennis wounds one of them and pushes them away, which sets into movement the episode of a long-stewing fight.

The fence knights come back to Standfast and reveal to Ser Osgrey what has happened. The old man understands that Lady Rohanne will see the injuring of one of her men as a slight on her respect. He arranges Ser Bennis and Dunk to assemble men from his three towns and to begin preparing them to battle. Duncan seeks after another arrangement and is sent to Coldmoat to conference with Lady Rohanne and offer her bloodprice, an antiquated type of wergeld.

As they meet Lady Rohanne Duncan understands that a few things are not the same as he was told. Woman Rohanne is a really young lady, to whom he is pulled in, rather than an old dowager. He is educated that the stream does not have a place with Ser Eustace, but rather had been conceded by King Daeron II Targaryen to House Webber for its administrations in the Blackfyre Rebellion. It had been taken from House Osgrey in discipline for their help of Daemon I Blackfyre.

Dunk and Egg additionally discover that the woman needs to remarry inside a brief span or lose her territories to a cousin as expressed in her dad's confirmation. Her dad additionally entrusted Ser Lucas "Longinch" to ensure her against unworthy suitors. Ser Lucas has translated this to shield her against all suitors and tries to motivate her to wed him.

The meeting does not end well. Woman Rohanne declines to separate the dam or take the bloodprice. She requests that Ser Bennis will be swung over to her or else she will take him herself. Stunned and irritated by every one of the disclosures Ser Duncan needs to leave Osgrey's administration. Be that as it may, as he understands that the villagers won't stand a shot against Lady Rohanne's very much furnished fighters, he chooses to remain.

The following morning Ser Osgrey, Duncan and Egg ride to the waterway where they meet Lady Webber and her little armed force. Ser Duncan asks and is allowed a private conference with Lady Webber. He demonstrates her Egg's ring, demonstrating Egg is a ruler of the blood. He slices his own particular cheeks to compensate for the injuring of her man. Woman Rohanne is inspired yet requests an expression of remorse from Ser Eustace, who can't. The gatherings choose to settle the issue in a battle between their champions. Duncan battles Ser Lucas and can slaughter him however practically suffocates all the while.

When he awakens Ser Eustace and Lady Rohanne have settled their disparities and have hitched. Duncan is made a request to stay at Standfast as their commander of the protect yet can't. Scarcely recouped he gets ready to clear out. Woman Rohanne meets him at the stables and offers her finest steed and her statements of regret. Dunk declines both, yet Rohanne requests that he take something of her. They kiss enthusiastically and Duncan cuts her mesh with the goal that he will have a remark her.