In the epic fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin and its television adaption Game of Thrones, Ramsay Bolton, formerly Ramsay Snow, is a fictitious character.
Ramsay is a rape victim’s ancestor. Roose Bolton encountered a miller’s wife while out hunting by the Weeping Water and wanted to engage in the forbidden custom known as “the first night,” in which a lord has the right to bed a commoner’s bride. After raping the woman beneath his swinging body, he hanged the miller beneath a tree for failing to inform his lord of their marriage. The mother brought the young Ramsay to the Dreadfort a year later.
The taboo against kinslaying prevented Roose from killing her and the child when he saw the infant had his recognizable pale, cold eyes. The woman claimed she was kicked out because the mill had been taken by her husband’s brother. Infuriated by this, Roose had the man’s tongue cut out in order to keep him from confessing the truth to his liege lord, Rickard Stark. Roose then gave the lady the mill, a pig, several chicks, and a bag of money every year in return for her commitment never to tell Ramsay the truth about who his father was.
How did Ramsay Bolton die in ‘Game of Thrones’?
Sansa ate Ramsay while still alive. With Ramsay’s death, House Bolton’s hegemony in the North ends.
