" Milk brothers. Not blood. My lady mother had no milk when I was little, so Wylla had to nurse me" .
" 是乳奶兄弟，无血缘关系的。我小时候，母亲大人没有奶水，不得不让薇拉喂奶。"
冰与火之歌：魔龙的狂舞（中英对照）
Melisandre touched the ruby at her neck. " Gilly is giving suck to Dalla's son as well as her own. It seems cruel of you to part our little prince from his milk brother, my lord" .
Milk kinship, formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form of kinship did not exclude particular groups, such that class and other hierarchal systems did not matter in terms of milk kinship participation.