So, I've been randomly reading Brienne chapters and bits of pieces of TWoIaF. I know it's been discussed in e.g. reddit threads ( such as here ), but I don't think we had this here in the forum specifically yet, so maybe someone finds that interesting as well.Anywho, I read about Ser Galladon of Morne and the Just Maid - and now I ask myself what to make of the bits and pieces we got of that tale. For reference, the quotes in question:"When she was small, her nurse had filled her ears with tales of valor, regaling her with the noble exploits of Ser Galladon of Morne, Florian the Fool, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, and other champions. Each man bore a famous sword, and surely Oathkeeper belonged in their company, even if she herself did not. 'You'll be defending Ned Stark's daughter with Ned Stark's own steel,' Jaime had promised." (AFfC, 99)."'Every place has its local heroes. Where I come from, the singers sing of Ser Galladon of Morne, the Perfect Knight.' 'Ser Gallawho of What?' He snorted. 'Never heard o' him. Why was he so bloody perfect?' 'Ser Galladon was a champion of such valor that the Maiden herself lost her heart to him. She gave him an enchanted sword as a token of her love. The Just Maid, it was called. No common sword could check her, nor any shield withstand her kiss. Ser Galladon bore the Just Maid proudly, but only thrice did he unsheathe her. He would not use the Maid against a mortal man, for she was so potent as to make any fight unfair.' Crabb thought that was hilarious. 'The Perfect Knight? The Perfect Fool, he sounds like. What's the point o' having some magic sword if you don't bloody well use it?' 'Honor,' she said. 'The point is honor.' That only made him laugh the louder. 'Ser Clarence Crabb would have wiped his hairy arse with your Perfect Knight, m'lady. If they'd ever have met, there'd be one more bloody head sitting on the shelf at the Whispers, you ask me. »I should have used the magic sword,« it'd be saying to all the other heads. »I should have used the bloody sword.«' Brienne could not help but smile. 'Perhaps,' she allowed, 'but Ser Galladon was no fool. Against a foe eight feet tall mounted on an aurochs, he might well have unsheathed the Just Maid. He used her once to slay a dragon, they say.'" (AFfC, 401-402)."Many of the folks of Tarth, highborn and low alike, claim descent from a legendary hero, Ser Galladon of Morne, who was said to wield a sword called the Just Maide given to him by the Seven themselves. Given the role that the Just Maid plays in Ser Galladon's tale, Maester Hubert, in his Kin of the Stag, has suggested that Galldon of Morne was no rude warrior of the Age of Heroes turned into a knight by singers a thousand years later, but an actual historic figure of more recent times. Hubert also notes that Morne was a royal seat of petty kings on the eastern coast of Tarth until the Storm Kings made them submit, but that its ruins indicate that the site was made by Andals, not First Men." (TWoIaF, 231).So, is he just some fancy tale? Or narrative means to express something else?Galladon's namesake?An allusion to Brienne's and/or Jaime's narrative?As has been suggested elsewhere , a nod to Galahad from Arthurian myth?What of the similarities between Oathkeeper and the Just Maid? Or Lightbringer?Discuss if you feel like it.