She doesn’t talk like the common free folk at all. What is it about her and Dalla that makes them so different? And how did she survive in the woods when she went to get Tormund
The Wildlings are not a monolithic folk.
While there are some among them that have something of the uncouth, unwashed barbarian about them; others who are flat out scumbags and trailer-park gangsters; but there are others who are really no more barbaric or uncouth than the Mountain clans south of the Wall, or many another Northern House(cough, cough, Umbers.)
Val herself does kind of come off a real lady among them, with her white fur trimmed garments and sickle-bladed sacrificial knife. Some have speculated that she and Dalla really were nobility, as Stannis believed; others that she is some kind of priestess of the Old Gods.
No matter her prestige, clan or role in Wildling culture, the timbre of her challenging flirtation with Jon Snow, when she almost nakedly invites him to have a try at ‘'stealing” her —provided he is man enough for the task — places her preferred mating rituals squarely in Wildling culture.
Jon Snow. Youth is wasted on the young.
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