is your heart a sponge or a fist?

 george r r martin will let bran eat jojen as a paste but wont let a POV character go to the frozen shore. i think the free folk / wildling clans are soooo interesting and im mad that we still havent gotten a good look at a lot of them beyond fragmented information as jon plays the double agent with mance. i have compiled the info available for my own entertainment thank you

men of the frozen shore

• west of the frostfangs
• fish along the northern coast of the bay of ice
• historically raid bear island
• generally name themselves after beasts/animals from the region
• ride chariots of walrus bones led by dogs the size of direwolves
• breed reindeer
• there are two sects who fight/dislike one another: one who wear antlers, another who wear walrus tusks
• live in ice huts
• some worship the old gods, other worship isolated snow/ice gods
• historically in conflict with the ice river clans

the ice river clans

• north of the frozen shore, along the ice rivers in the north, south of the lands of always winter
• said to be cannibalistic 
• historically in conflict with the frozen shore clans

thenns

• in a mountain valley between the peaks of the frostfangs
• last of the first men
• speak the old tongue
• led by the magnar
• more contact with giants than the other free folk
• brutal warriors with more discipline than most free folk
• bronze everything: axes, helms, short spears, swords
• bronze warhorns to warn about the nights watch

hornfoots

• somewhere near the frostfangs
• wear no shoes o the soles of their feet become hard and black
• wear furs 
• wield long spears
• historically in conflict with the nightrunners

nightrunners

• fought with the hornfoots
• dont know shit else about them

cave-dwellers

• live in caverns in frostfangs surrounding thenn
• dye/paint their faces blue, green, and purple
• file their teeth (into points?)
• rumored to worship dark underground gods

miscillenious

• wildlings hate the nights watch more than they hate the northmen
• occasionally trade with northerners at eastwatch by the sea
• storrold's point is a peninsula on the shivering sea where hardhome lies, and crab gods are worshipped
• children are not named until they are 2 years old