Editing Duncan the Tall (section)

===Early life===
Duncan's earliest memories were of living as a street urchin in the [[Flea Bottom]] slums of [[King's Landing]].{{Ref|THK}} His closest friends went by the names of [[Ferret]], [[Rafe]], and [[Pudding]]. By his own admission, they were "little monsters" with Duncan, at the time still known as "Dunk", the worst of all.{{Ref|TMK}} Sometimes they would sell{{Ref|TSS}} or even dump{{Ref|TMK}} pieces of meat of dubious origin to the local pot shops that made the [[bowl of brown|bowls of brown]]. Dunk was an orphan{{Ref|THK}} who never knew either of his parents. It may be that he is a [[bastard]]. He believed his father might have been a criminal, and once hoped to someday go to the [[north]] and eventually the [[Wall]], where he could perhaps meet some tall old man who looked like him.{{Ref|TSS}}

[[File: YoungDunk Arlan TMK comic.png|thumb|200px|left|Ser Arlan and Dunk in Flea Bottom, by Mike S. Miller]]
Ser [[Arlan of Pennytree]], a [[hedge knight]], took Dunk as his new [[squire]] three or four years after the death of his previous squire, [[Roger of Pennytree]], during the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field|final battle]] of the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|196}}.{{Refn|group="N"|Duncan had been serving Ser Arlan since he was five or six years old, after the tourney at [[Storm's End]] in {{Date|200}},{{Ref|THK}} and was "no more than three or four" at the time of the Redgrass Field, in late {{Date|196}}, when Roger died.{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}}}{{Ref|TSS}} He found the young Dunk, aged five or six,{{Ref|THK}} in King's Landing chasing a pig and took him on.{{Ref|TMK}} Arlan raised Dunk, and together they traveled all over Westeros, except the north.{{Ref|TSS}} Though they never visited [[Pennytree]], where Arlan was from,{{Ref|TMK}} they served Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo Tyrell]] at [[Highgarden]] during one of the first few years that Dunk served Arlan,{{Ref|THK}} visited [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|205}},{{Ref|TMK}} served [[Lord Florent]] for half a year and joined [[Lord Dondarrion (father of Manfred)|Lord Dondarrion]] in the hunt for the [[Vulture King (Daeron II)|Vulture King]], both in {{Date|206}}, and visited [[Lannisport]] in {{Date|208}},{{Ref|THK}} amongst other places. As well, Duncan accompanied Arlan when he was one of several [[knight]]s hired by a Dornish merchant who wanted to travel from [[Lannisport]] to the [[Prince's Pass]] in [[Dorne]].{{Ref|TSS}}

Dunk learned sword-fighting from Ser Arlan,{{Ref|THK}} though he still recalls his fighting experience from Flea Bottom as well.{{Ref|THK}}{{Ref|TSS}} Ever since the first time that Arlan had let Duncan hold a sword, Duncan had dreamt of becoming a knight of the [[Kingsguard]].{{Ref|TMK}}

Dunk was not sure exactly how old he was because he grew up as an abandoned orphan in the streets of King's Landing, and his unusually large height from a young age made it difficult to guess. By 209 AC he loosely thought he must be about 16 or 17 years old, which would place his birth somewhere between 191 to 193 AC.{{Ref|THK}}