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[Sir Omkar]

Can anybody tell what these time periods are (approximately) according to modern time reading?

[Silmarien]

Um...I'll take a stab at it.

The Hour of the Wolf is likely the middle of the night (somewhere between midnight and 2am?).  The Hour of the Owl would likely be a similar time frame but later, so 2am-4am?  There's nothing to back this up, just a guess.

[The Last Reyne]

Silmarien, on 12 June 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Um...I'll take a stab at it.

The Hour of the Wolf is likely the middle of the night (somewhere between midnight and 2am?).  The Hour of the Owl would likely be a similar time frame but later, so 2am-4am?  There's nothing to back this up, just a guess.

Sounds reasonable to me.

[Dr. Pepper]

I think somewhere in the book it says that the hour of the wolf is the darkest time of night, so between 3am and 5am...the hours before dawn.  The hour of the wolf can also a state of being.  So the period when one is most deeply in dreamland.  I can't recall if it was used this way in the books.  Perhaps when Jaime or Jon or Dany wake up from unsettled dreams.

The hour of the owl is usually just nighttime, more specifically early night when people are still alert.

Edited by Dr. Pepper, 12 June 2012 - 05:12 AM.

[butterbumps!]

Here's the 3 stages of night:

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The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn.  (From one of Cersei's chapters in Dance).

So owls are associated with dusk, nightingales with dawn, and a "time for wolves" is the dead of night.

[Noelle Snow]

Along these lines, what do they mean by evenfall? I assumed it meant twilight or dusk but I've seen them mention something happening at evenfall and then later that day something happened at dusk. Is evenfall like mid-day, noon-ish?

[Alys Karstark]

I'm imagining that if the clock is going to be invented in Westeros, it would contain pictures of animals instead of numbers...

[Mioranduh]

see also topic: http://asoiaf.wester...rs-hour-of-the/

[The Lord's Kiss]

butterbumps!, on 12 June 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

Here's the 3 stages of night:



So owls are associated with dusk, nightingales with dawn, and a "time for wolves" is the dead of night.

Thank you, I always wondered about this.