MARTIN: The Night's Watch is at the Wall and has these 19 castles
and has for hundreds of years.
There's a lot of men there, they need to eat.
So thousands of years ago,
this actually quite large area of land, the Gift, was set aside for their use.
The people who lived on the land,
the Night's Watch was their feudal overlords.
Instead of any particular lord, they owed their obedience to the Night's Watch.
And the Night's Watch took taxes
in terms of a portion of their food and their livestock.
And some of the land was also farmed by the Night's Watch themselves,
by the order of stewards, which is one of the three orders within the Night's Watch.
The Gift was their land.