[He sits up a little taller, pleased to be able to inform her of this part of the story.]
Jousts are performed with lances, on horseback. Lances are like very long poles, that come to a blunt point. A knight sits astride his horse and couches the lance in his arm-- [He demonstrates in the air for her, with an invisible lance.] And there is a second knight that does the same, across the field from him, and then they ride toward one another and use their lances to try to knock the other from his horse. If they break a lance on the other knight, that counts as well, but it counts more to unseat him.
When a tourney is held, knights come to compete. Sometimes there is only jousting, and sometimes they have other competitions too--but the jousts are always the best part. Winterfell was too far north to have many very great jousts. My father's bannermen might come, and our household--but they were never like the jousts of King's Landing. Knights of great houses can compete, and even hedge knights can ride in the lists--and each joust ends when the winning knight crowns the Queen of Love and Beauty, and then there is a feast.
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Jousts are performed with lances, on horseback. Lances are like very long poles, that come to a blunt point. A knight sits astride his horse and couches the lance in his arm-- [He demonstrates in the air for her, with an invisible lance.] And there is a second knight that does the same, across the field from him, and then they ride toward one another and use their lances to try to knock the other from his horse. If they break a lance on the other knight, that counts as well, but it counts more to unseat him.
When a tourney is held, knights come to compete. Sometimes there is only jousting, and sometimes they have other competitions too--but the jousts are always the best part. Winterfell was too far north to have many very great jousts. My father's bannermen might come, and our household--but they were never like the jousts of King's Landing. Knights of great houses can compete, and even hedge knights can ride in the lists--and each joust ends when the winning knight crowns the Queen of Love and Beauty, and then there is a feast.