People work together when it suits 'em, they're loyal when it suits 'em, love each other when it suits 'em, and they kill each other when it suits 'em. And now you're gonna share it with me the deep wisdom you found inside the head of a bird. Do you see her sulking about it? That's because she understands the way things are. Jon is educated in history, math, reading, writing, and other important things, but when it comes to surviving out in the real world most of that means nothing and when it comes down to only that Jon knows nothing. It is kind of the classic 'book smart' versus 'street smart'. That even with constructs like team work, loyalty, honor, and even love are temporary things that only used when convenient to both parties. It essentially means that Jon does not know how the world truly works. It's an insult, but a playful one, reminding him that she's the one with all the experience.įrom an in-universe prespective we are offered what Orell thinks of the phrase. Later, after she warms up to him, the same phrase takes on more of a teasing tone.

Initially, when she tells him he knows nothing, she means exactly that: 'You think you know everything about my world, but you know nothing.' Jon is also clearly still a virgin, and when Ygritte starts flirting with him, his inexperience shows. Jon also exposes all of his prejudices about how the wildlings live, which Ygritte considers stupid. More importantly, she has clearly been in relationships before, and has learned how to take care of herself.ĭuring their time together, Jon initially expects her to want to be treated the way the women he knows would, but his only source of comparison would be people like Sansa, or at best Arya. We never see any hint of parents, though as she's 18 when we meet her that may not be unusual. Ygritte, on the other hand, is a wildling who's has to survive, seemingly on her own, for many years. That's the sum total of his real-world experience. Once he gets to the Wall, he takes his vow of abstinence, and proceeds to be a Night's Watchman.

I think he's supposed to be older on TV, but in the novels, he's 15.

He grew up as a not-quite-noble, who was shuffled off to the Wall when he was just a teenager.

Remember that, when the two met, Jon Snow had lived a relatively sheltered life. She's telling him that he doesn't know or understand nearly as much as he thinks about how the 'real world' (her real world, at least) works. I don't think there's any deeper meaning that just what it says: She's calling him an idiot.

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