The weddings were loud and jolly, with a lot of drinking. Whenever Cat happened by with her barrow, the Sailor’s Wife would insist that her new husband buy some oysters, to stiffen him for the consummation. She was good that way, and quick to laugh as well, but Cat thought there was something sad about her too.
The other whores said that the Sailor’s Wife visited the Isle of the Gods on the days when her flower was in bloom, and knew all the gods who lived there, even the ones that Braavos had forgotten. They said she went to pray for her first husband, her true husband, who had been lost at sea when she was a girl no older than Lanna. “She thinks that if she finds the right god, maybe he will send the winds and blow her old love back to her,” said one-eyed Yna, who had known her longest, “but I pray it never happens. Her love is dead, I could taste that in her blood. If he ever should come back to her, it will be a corpse.”
From
A Feast For Crows, Appendix (under the “In Braavos” heading):
--THE SAILOR’S WIFE, a whore at the Happy Port,
--LANNA, her daughter, a young whore
Here's something the appendices tell us that the book didn't.
Lanna, “the youngest of the whores, only ten-and-four,” who has “fine long golden hair” according to the Cat of the Canals POV, is the daughter of the Sailor's Wife. This distinction, taken together with Arya's account of the Sailor's Wife's mysterious past, has given rise to a tentative theory; that the Sailor's Wife is, in fact,
Tysha, the long-lost love of Tyrion Lannister.
OMG, are you regretting inviting me to discuss these books?
