content: '''Ygritte''' is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''.
  Introduced in 1998's ''A Clash of Kings'', she subsequently appeared in Martin's ''A Storm of Swords''.  She 
  is a wildling from the lands beyond the great Wall on the continent Westeros. Her kind are called "Wildlings" because they are outside the feudal order of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall; she calls them "Free Folk".
  Ygritte is portrayed by the Scottish actress Rose Leslie in the HBO television adaptation.