Bells

12 AGOT Daenerys II: Drogo removes the bells from his hair before their nuptuals. The bells are awarded for victories.

47 AGOT Daenerys V: A bell tolls to mark the beginning of Tyrion's trial by combat.

52 AGOT Sansa IV: The King's Landing bells toll for Robert's death. 544

62 AGOT Daenerys VII: When Drogo kills khals Ogo and Fogo, he takes their bells to wear and "every step rings louder than before." -667

66 AGOT Arya V: The bells that rang for Robert's death ring again and not everyone understands why. It seems the simple convention of what the bell toll means is not entirely clear to all who hear it. "Is it the boy king that's died now?" "The king's not dead, that's only summoning bells. One tower tolling. When the king dies, they ring every bell in the city." "So who is it died, if not the king?" "It's a summoning" -722

73 AGOT Daenerys X: Drogo's bells are braided into his hair for his funeral pyre. They will be burned with him, since he was not slain in battle.

A Clash of Kings

74 ACOK 1 Prologue: Cowbells on Patchfaces' buckethelm are worn by Cressen foreshadowing red & purple weddings.

118 ACOK 45 Tyrion X: A reference to "evenfall bells." There are bells for times of day?

123 ACOK 50 Tyrion XI: Bells ring for the Kingsguard Investment Ceremony

136 ACOK 63 Sansa VII: Dontos says the bells are to indicate "the city is saved" 867-8 "They had rung the bells when King Robert died, she remembered, but this was different, no slow dolorous death knell but a joyful thunder." 868

137 ACOK 64 Daenerys V: Jhiqui braids a bell into Dany's hair, one she insists she does not deserve. Drogon burned the Undying. "That was Drogon's victory, not mine, Dany wanted to say, but she held her tongue. The Dothraki would esteem her all the more for a few bells in her hair. She chimed as she mounted her silver mare and again with every stride, but neither Ser Jorah nor her bloodriders made mention of it" -871 There's an implication, since Dany's bells go unmentioned, that the bells in the hair are heard loudest by the one wearing them. That would suggest they embolden the wearer perhaps more than that they announce them.

142 ACOK 69 Jon VIII: Qhorin Halfhand's disdain for Rattleshirt's rattling reminds he values stealth.

A Storm of Swords

154 ASOS 11 Davos II: Patchface's bells jingle when he sings of the red wedding, foreshadowing Jinglebell.

173 ASOS 30 Arya V: During the Battle of the Bells at Stoney Sept, the town septons rang the bells to warn the smallfolk to lock their doors but "Robert came out of hiding to join the fight when the bells began to ring." 395

186 ASOS 43 Daenerys IV: "When she turned her head, the twin bells in her braid rang softly." 575 Prendahl na Ghezen of the Stormcrows says she took Astapor by treachery and that won't work a second time. Dany's responses are flippant, like her victory bells.

187 ASOS 44 Arya VIII: In her dream about the red wedding before it happens, the ghost of High Heart says "the saddest sound was the little bells."

193 ASOS 50 Catelyn VI: Lord Walder's fool is called Jinglebell, one of his gandsons, a halfwit. He wears a crown and collar ornamented with tiny brass bells. 674 Is this crown to reference Robb's?

195 ASOS Catelyn VII: When Catelyn kills Jinglebell, she first holds him hostage with hands shaking so that his crown and collar jingle.

205 ASOS 62 Sansa V: King's Landing rings the bells for Joffrey and Sansa remembers them ringing for Robert. 832

A Feast For Crows

226 AFFC 1 Prologue: "When the first shaft of sunlight broke through the clouds to the east, morning bells began to peal from the Sailor's Sept down by the harbor. The Lord's Sept joined in a moment later, then the Seven Shrines from their gardens across the Honeywine, and finally the Starry Sept that had been the seat of the High Septon for a thousand years before Aegon landed at King's Landing." 16

228 AFFC 3 The Captain of Guards: Recalling Norvos: "He could still recall the sounds of the three bells, the way that Noom's deep peals set his very bones to shuddering, the proud strong voice of Narrah, sweet Nyel's silvery laughter." 52

243 AFFC 18 Cersei IV: The King's Landing bells ring for the death of Tyrion's High Septon.

A Dance With Dragons

296 ADWD 25 The Lost Lord: Jon Connington remembers the Battle of the Bells as the war being lost. Dreams of the Stoney Sept loss.