A century before Game of Thrones
A young, naïve but courageous knight. A diminutive squire with a crown’s secret. Great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits await two improbable and incomparable friends.
A century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros — Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight with no castle, no coin and no master, and Egg, a sharp-tongued boy who offers to squire for him and hides a name that would shake the realm: Aegon Targaryen.
Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, their road runs from Flea Bottom to the tourney grounds of Ashford Meadow — where one swung sword will turn a wandering nobody into a legend the singers never got right.
“In every man, there are many men. So be brave. Be just. Get up… be tall.”
— counsel heard on the road to Ashford
George R.R. Martin’s Dunk & Egg novellas — The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, The Mystery Knight — are Westeros at ground level: mud, salt beef, smallfolk and oaths, told warm instead of grim. Season one adapts The Hedge Knight. Season two, coming 2027, takes up The Sworn Sword.
Tap a card to turn it over, as the puppeteers turn their masks.
The Hedge Knight
Peter Claffey
Seven feet of stubborn honor out of Flea Bottom. Squired for old Ser Arlan of Pennytree since he was a boy, and buried him under a elm on the road to Ashford. Dunk owns a sword, three horses and an oath — and of the three, only the oath has never failed him.
The Squire
Dexter Sol Ansell
A bald, boots-first stable boy who knows every knight in the Seven Kingdoms — the good ones, anyway. Egg is cleverer than any squire has a right to be, because Egg is not a stable boy at all: he is Prince Aegon Targaryen, and he has run away from a crown.
The Laughing Storm
Daniel Ings
A tourney champion who laughs loudest in the worst of it, drinks deepest, and hits hardest. Lord of Storm’s End — and the first great lord to treat a hedge knight like a man.
Breakspear · Hand of the King
Bertie Carvel
Heir to the Iron Throne and the best of his house — dark of hair, plain of speech, and just. When Dunk needs one high lord to believe him, it is Baelor who steps down from the dais.
Brightflame
Finn Bennett
Beautiful, vain and cruel, with silver-gold hair and a dragon’s temper. Aerion believes the blood of the dragon makes him more than mortal. Ashford will test the theory — at Dunk’s expense.
Tanselle Too-Tall · Puppeteer of Dorne
Tanzyn Crawford
A Dornish painter of puppets whose wooden dragon draws the wrong royal eye. It is Tanselle who paints the elm and the falling star onto Dunk’s shield — the sigil he will carry into legend.
Fourth son of the King
Sam Spruell
Stern, storm-cold, and feared in the lists — a warrior prince crushed between a glorious elder brother and sons he cannot govern. Egg’s father. Dunk’s problem.
The Drunken · The Dreamer
Henry Ashton
A prince who dreams true dreams and drowns them in wine. He saw a dead dragon fall upon a great knight at Ashford — and dreams, in his family, have a way of coming due.
The Old Hedge Knight
Danny Webb
He rode a hundred tourneys, won a few, and never once broke his word. His death under a roadside elm begins the tale — and his lessons finish it: a true knight defends the weak and the innocent.
The Reluctant
Shaun Thomas
A green apple in a house of red ones. When Dunk must find six champions or hang, Raymun Fossoway is the friend who raises his hand when it actually counts.
Season One — six half-hour chapters, aired weekly on HBO and Max. Ride the rail.
Episode 1
January 18, 2026
On his journey to the forthcoming tournament in Ashford, Dunk meets a clever young boy named Egg, who offers to be his squire.
Episode 2
January 25, 2026
Dunk appeals to various lords to gain entrance into the tournament — but Egg advises him to hold onto his pride. When the Targaryens arrive at Ashford, Dunk seizes his moment with Prince Baelor.
Episode 3
February 1, 2026
After Egg attempts to train Dunk’s uncooperative horse, Dunk teaches his new squire an important skill — and the Ashford steward offers a proposition that could secure his future.
Episode 4
February 8, 2026
In the Targaryens’ crosshairs, Dunk claims his right to trial by combat. Aerion demands a trial of seven — and Dunk must find six men willing to bleed beside a nobody.
Episode 5
February 15, 2026
Dunk’s mettle is put to the test in the brutal trial of seven. Years earlier, a boy from Flea Bottom finds himself drawn to the promise of a new future.
Episode 6
February 22, 2026
As Ashford mourns a great loss, Dunk considers his next move — and whether the realm’s most dangerous squire should stay at his side.
Season One — all six chapters now streaming
