A most deserved knighthood! Sansa knew that few southern knights would keep a given vow when things got truly hard. A lesser man would have taken the gifted Valyrian Steel and gone home with it. Brienne had stubbornly held her word to her dead mother and continued looking for Sansa and Arya for years, no matter how daunting or hopeless. Without the Tarth heiress, Sansa would have never reached the Wall alive.