Yes: and he also used mediæval *literature*: Daenerys's storyline owes a lot to Kriemhild's in the Nibelungenlied.
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Oh god, I love meeting someone like you! I thought the exact same thing when I saw the first episodes of Game of Thrones in 2014! And that comparison of Daenerys and Kriemhild I think led me to this blog for the first time... racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/c... Following you now!
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Yes: her relationship with Khal Drogo is essentially a blend of the Siegfried & Etzel/Attila storylines.
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Jon's killing of her in the TV version paralleled Hildebrand killing Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied.
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Another literary thread is the assassination of Renly by his brother: this owes a lot to the Spanish romance traditions around the death of Sancho II at the Siege of Zamora. Brienne of Tarth's rôle parallels that of Sancho's standard-bearer, Ruy Diaz ('El Cid').
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