"You fought for me in an hour of need. True friends can be seen on the battlefield. You shall always have a place by my hearth, and meat and mead at my table. Arise as clansmen of the North!" Jon's voice boomed. While they might not be liked, with oaths publicly sworn and knees bent, they would be accepted in the North, albeit grudgingly. Sansa noticed that Jon did not outright elevate them into nobility, but named them clansmen, similar to the mountain clansmen who were not considered nobility, despite their chieftains being called Lords out of respect.