Chapter 51

The King-Beyond-the-Wall had done everything he could, but the wildlings’ lack of discipline was still enough to make a man despair.

A host of a hundred thousand free folk surged onward in a vast column, the line snaking for miles like a twisted great serpent.

Wildlings liked to go to war with their whole families in tow. Out of those hundred thousand, fewer than thirty thousand could actually lift a weapon and fight.