Game Of Thrones fans have worked out who Arya and Sansa Stark are named after.
Ned Stark and Cat Stark (RIP) have five children (well technically four – depends if you’re counting Jon or not) and it turns out the names of each of them weren’t just selected at random.
A fan on Reddit asked where the inspiration for the Stark girls’ names came from, given that ‘all four Stark boys are named after people who were important to Ned (Robert Baratheon, Jon Arryn, Brandon Stark, Rickard Stark)’.
Reddit user Chaost claims that Ned and Cat decided to name their daughters after their grandmothers.
There was also a Sansa Stark further back in the Stark family tree.
They said: ‘Ned’s grandmother was named Arya Flint. Cat’s grandmother was named Sansa leeford, so it looks like naming after grandmothers is the connection for both.’
Another theory claims that Arya might be a variation on Jon Arryn, who served as the first hand of the king Robert Baratheon. He also acted as a second father to both Robert and Ned.
Star Maisie Williams, who plays Arya, recently revealed that she either wasn’t meant to be in the final season, or the last two seasons of the HBO show were never meant to happen at all.
Appearing on The Disruptive Entrepreneur podcast, Maisie spilled that she was only contracted for six seasons.
‘At the beginning, I would have paid them for me to be in it – I was so excited,’ she beamed.
Game Of Thrones is set to return for its final season in 2019.
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