[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by blankall

"The tale grows with the telling."

I thought it was a good way to establish that Dunc is not a reliable narrator. He was raised by a drunk, but Dunc believes all his stories anyways. Dunc also likely romanticizes a lot of his past. In reality he's been cleaning up after a drunk for his whole life, and he copes with it by pretending he's some honorable knight's squire.

Spoiler!

Pretending he was knighted.