{"id":384296,"date":"2026-04-17T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:03:14","slug":"a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-season-2-adapts-peter-claffeys-favorite-book-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384296\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 adapts Peter Claffey’s favorite book in the series"},"content":{"rendered":"

HBO’s Game of Thrones<\/a> prequel series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/a> adapts the series of Dunk & Egg novellas by George R.R. Martin<\/a>. The novellas began with “The Hedge Knight” (1998), continued with “The Sworn Sword” (2003), and the most recent is “The Mystery Knight” (2010). Martin has said that he plans to pen more Dunk & Egg stories<\/a>, but up to now, nothing more has been published. <\/p>\n

Season 1 of the HBO adaptation covered the entirety of “The Hedge Knight,”<\/a> which follows Ser Duncan (Peter Claffey)<\/a> as he tries to make a name for himself as a knight by enlisting in a tourney at Ashford Meadow. On his quest, he’s joined by young Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell)<\/a> \u2014 Prince Aegon Targaryen \u2014 who serves as his squire. The season was a breakout success at HBO, telling a very different style of story to what fans were used to with Game of Thrones. Rather than a wide-ranging narrative, it focuses solely on the perspective of Dunk, a normal man trying to make a living. <\/p>\n

In season 2, AKOTSK will adapt “The Sworn Sword,”<\/a> which sees Dunk and Egg travel to a drought-stricken Reach, where they enter the services of elderly Ser Eustace Osgrey (Peter Mullan)<\/a>, who places them in the center of his tribulations: a heated land dispute with the fiery and shrewdLady Rohanne Webber (Lucy Boynton)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For star Peter Claffey, the sophomore season is particularly exciting. It’s his favorite novella of Martin’s trilogy. \u201cIt’s totally different. ‘The Sworn Sword’ is my favorite novella of the three in the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms book. It’s a tragic love story. It’s a completely different job for Dunk to navigate,\u201d Claffey said during an interview on The Playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dexter<\/p>\n

Dexter Sol Ansell (Egg) and Peter Claffey (Dunk) in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. | Photograph by Steffan Hill\/HBO.<\/p>\n

In season 1, Dunk faced the brutal trial of seven<\/a>. In season 2 he faces something arguably much more daunting: talking to women. “I suppose he has his first kind of experience with\u2026his first kind of experience with kind of trying to navigate talking and chatting to women, which he’s terrible at, and trying to establish a work relationship with a woman, which he’s absolutely awful at.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s not just story elements that have Claffey enthused to tackle “The Sworn Sword.” He’s very impressed by the level of casting that’s been made for the new season. \u201cI didn’t think we’d be able to ever hit the level of quality of season 1, but the people that have come in, I mean, people have been confirmed now, as well as Lucy Boynton and Babou Ceesay<\/a>. And yeah, just people have come in and just been incredible, incredible,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 began production in December 2025 and filming is still ongoing. The production moved to Gran Canaria in Spain<\/a> in late February 2026, but filming has reportedly been temporarily put on pause due to flooding in the area<\/a>. <\/p>\n

h\/t GeekTyrant<\/a><\/p>\n

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