Legends of the Long Night

Legends of the Long Night is a history book, researching scattered legendary accounts of the Long Night 8,000 years ago, when the White Walkers first attempted to destroy the world of the living.
==History==
===Game of Thrones: Season 7===
Sam inquires Archmaester Ebrose about the army of the dead; Ebrose replies that the tales of the Long Night are unlikely to be fabrications due to the similarities between unconnected sources. Later, Sam steals the book from the Citadel's restricted library, but fails to collect any valuable information from it. Gilly then starts reading through it.
==Contents==
As the First Men established their realms following their Pact, little troubled them save their own feuds and wars, or so the histories tell us; it is also from these histories that we learn of the Long Night, when a season of winter came that lasted a generation - a generation in which children were born, grew into adulthood, and in many cases died without ever seeing the spring. Indeed, some of the old wives' tales say that they never even beheld the light of day, so complete was the winter that fell on the world.
While this last may well be no more than fancy, the fact that some cataclysm took place many thousands of years ago seems certain. Lomas Longstrider, in his Wonders Made by Man, recounts meeting descendants of the Rhoynar whose secret [...]
==In the books==
No such book has been mentioned by name in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. The on-screen text of the book in the Season 7 premiere is actually a block quote from The World of Ice & Fire.
==References==
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de:Legenden der Langen Nacht
fr:Légendes de la Longue Nuit
ru:Легенды Долгой ночи