Quote Originally Posted by Serilda View Post
And the odd 'little birds' wouldn't bother me in the slightest; I like the phrase on its own, and it doesn't stick out when it's just once or twice in the whole game (however, I counted three instances of the line in one day of questing recently, which does rather stand out when there are other references to the series everywhere else yet seldom is there a single bird, actual or metaphorical, in sight).
What's being said about a "little bird"? Is it just the "a little bird told me" expression? That's not from GoT. Nor does it have anything to do with actual birds. It's just a commonplace English expression for indicating you know something but are unable or unwilling to identify how you know it. And it's been a common expression since before A Song of Ice and Fire was written.

A book or TV series using a commonplace term or phrase does not make other uses of that phrase a reference to it.