Parece não ficar claro o tipo de galhada que os alces têm nos livros. Embora do texto possa ser inferido que os chifres são mais parecidos com os dos alces dos EUA.
From a nearby oak a raven quorked, and Bran heard the sound of wings as another of the big black birds flapped down to land beside it. By day only half a dozen ravens stayed with them, flitting from tree to tree or riding on the antlers of the elk. The rest of the murder flew ahead or lingered behind. But when the sun sank low they would return, descending from the sky on night-black wings until every branch of every tree was thick with them for yards around. Some would fly to the ranger and mutter at him, and it seemed to Bran that he understood their quorks and squawks. They are his eyes and ears. They scout for him, and whisper to him of dangers ahead and behind.
A Dance with Dragons, Bran I
Obviamente, é possível montar nos chifres de ambos os tipos de alces, mas é mais fácil montar nos mais finos. Essa citação realmente não aponta em nenhuma direção, mas:
In the very shadow of the Wall the wildlings made ready, winding thick coils of hempen rope around one shoulder and down across their chests, and lacing on queer boots of supple doeskin. The boots had spikes jutting from the toes; iron, for Jarl and two others, bronze for some, but most often jagged bone. Small stone-headed hammers hung from one hip, a leathern bag of stakes from the other. Their ice axes were antlers with sharpened tines, bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide. The eleven climbers sorted themselves into three teams of four; Jarl himself made the twelfth man. "Mance promises swords for every man of the first team to reach the top," he told them, his breath misting in the cold air. "Southron swords of castle-forged steel. And your name in the song he'll make of this, that too. What more could a free man ask? Up, and the Others take the hindmost!"
A Storm of Swords, Jon IV
As lâminas dos machados seriam mais fáceis de fabricar com os alces do Reino Unido, embora estes sejam machados de gelo, por isso seria igualmente fácil fazê-las com os alces dos EUA. Novamente, não está claro.
No entanto, o Calendário 2017 ASOIAF aponta para o alce como a versão do Reino Unido, embora os chifres sejam mais uma mistura entre os dois:
Observe que os alces no calendário acima se parecem mais com os extintos Alce irlandês:
