There is a snort at that first assertion. Even peasants knew, even rode horses, the savages across the Narrow Sea even ate them, but Jaime supposes that that isn't a claim of stature. Just difference. It usually is.

He shakes his head. "Even in war, I preferred to be in the vanguards with the foot soldiers, although any soldier worth his salt could fight on horseback. In tourneys, we had jousting. I don't suppose you'd know what that is either."