Game of Thrones season 8: What was episode 2's end credits song performed by Florence and the Machine?

It's the song that was sung on the eve of the big battle

The latest episode of Game of Thrones featured a song direct from the pages of author George RR Martin.

In the closing moments of the eighth and final season’s second outing, titled “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, Podrick sings a sombre tune to Brienne, Tyrion, Davos and Tormund as they drink together on the eve of the battle against the White Walkers.

The same song is later performed over the end credits by Florence and the Machine.

It’s called “Jenny of Oldstones” and tells the story of a woman and her prince, Duncan Targaryen – Daenerys’ great uncle in Martin’s A Song of ice and Fire book series, which the HBO show is based on. In the show, he’s Dany’s uncle and the brother of her father, the “Mad King”.

For the TV series, showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss added some lyrics and revealed in an “Inside the Episode” segment released after the broadcast that they composed the tune with Podrick actor, Daniel Portman.

You can find some of the lyrics below.

“High in the halls of the kings who are gone / Jenny would dance with her ghosts / The ones she had lost and the ones she had found / And the ones who had loved her the most.

“The ones who’d been gone for so very long / She couldn’t remember their names / They spun her around on the damp, cold stone / Spun away her sorrow and pain

“And she never wanted to leave”

In the song, Jenny is dancing with ghosts — specifically, the ghosts “who had loved her the most” in the “halls of the kings who were gone.”

The episode saw Jon Snow (Kit Harington) reveal his true Targaryen heritage to a concerned Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and featured a controversial sex scene involving Arya Stark (Maisie Williams).

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Game of Thrones is available on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in the UK. Watch the trailer for episode three, which reveals the first look at the big battle, hereyyyy.