As the forces of the living spent one final night drinking, loving, and reminiscing at Winterfell in Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2, the lovable Podrick Payne sent us out with a song. Unlike `The Bear and the Maiden Fair` or `The Rains of Castamere,` it was one that we haven`t heard before in the show. And for book readers, it came as a pretty big surprise. Here`s why it mattered.`Jenny`s Song` isn`t one of the most important songs in Westeros (to be fair, neither is `The Bear`), but it does come with a sad story attached, not to mention some interesting context from the books.The song concerns Jenny of Oldstones, whose story isn`t so sad in and of itself. Long before the events of the series, a Targaryen prince broke off his betrothal with a daughter of House Baratheon to marry Jenny, a common girl, instead. Jenny`s Song is just one of the songs allegedly written about her, and it`s referenced several times throughout the books, particularly in book 3, A Storm of Swords.It`s said Jenny was friends with a woods witch--like the one Cersei visited in her Season 5 flashback--who she brought to court with her. The witch allegedly prophesied that the Prince that was Promised, a hero of legend, would be born from the line of Prince Aerys Targaryen and Princess Rhaella Targaryen, who were brother and sister. After hearing the prophecy, their father, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen, had his two children (Aerys, who would become the Mad King, and Rhaella) married to one another. From that union came the characters we know: Prince Rhaegar and his siblings Viserys and Daenerys. So the prophecy may yet be fulfilled.Book readers learned about the song in book 3 while Arya was still hanging out with the Brotherhood Without Banners. The Brotherhood occasionally visit an unnamed woods witch known as the Ghost of High Heart, and she always requests that their minstrel, Tom of Sevenstreams, sings her Jenny`s Song in exchange for information. She weeps as she hears it, leading t ...
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