The Wolfswood
West of Winterfell the wolfswood begins, two miles past the winter town, and runs on to the sea. It covers the north-west of the North: oak and soldier pine, sentinel and ironwood, ash and beech and chestnut, with blackbriar in the undergrowth and here and there a weirwood standing alone or in a pair.
It takes its name from the wolves that can be heard in it after dark. Bears and boar live there too, and elk. Woodsmen and crofters live even in its depths, and the Glovers hold Deepwood Motte within it, near the Bay of Ice. Winterfell’s hunts ride into it from the Hunter’s Gate.
No direwolf has been seen in it for two hundred years, nor anywhere else south of the Wall.
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Deepwood Motte
The Glovers’ timber stronghold on a flat-topped hill deep in the wolfswood, ringed by a palisade and a dry ditch.
The Hunter’s Gate
The gate on the far side of Winterfell from the main gate, opening straight onto fields with the wolfswood beyond.
Direwolves
Wolves the size of ponies, the beast on the Stark banner, unseen south of the Wall for two hundred years.
Torrhen’s Square
The Tallharts’ stone castle south-west of Winterfell, square-towered, standing near a lake below the wolfswood.