Is this a Mandela effect? Did Game of Thrones coin the phrase "you sweet summer child?"

First I ever heard was game of thrones, but the first book is almost 3 decades old

I 100% used that phrase before Game of Thrones.

Edit - It is weird that even ChatGPT says Martin invented it. According to it, there has never been a documented or written use of the phrase prior to Martin.

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"you sweet summer child?"

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My grandmother was saying it at least 50 years ago. I imagine it went back into her childhood.

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It is weird that even ChatGPT says Martin invented it. According to it, there has never been a documented or written use of the phrase prior to Martin.

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The phrase “sweet summer's child" became a popular way of describing an innocent, naive person (especially among American writers) during the early Victorian era. It was used by a number of authors during the 1840s, notably:- Fredrika Bremer (1840), James Staunton Babcock (1849) in The West Wind and Mary Whitaker (1850) in The Creole.

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I remember it from GoT, nothing else.

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It’s 100% from game of thrones. Y’all are messed up in the head

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you sweet summer child

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The phrase “sweet summer's child" became a popular way of describing an innocent, naive person (especially among American writers) during the early Victorian era. It was used by a number of authors during the 1840s, notably:- Fredrika Bremer (1840), James Staunton Babcock (1849) in The West Wind and Mary Whitaker (1850) in The Creole.

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And the saying was completely dead by the 20th century. No one said sweet summers child after that till Game of Thrones

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My grandmother was saying it at least 50 years ago. I imagine it went back into her childhood.

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Yeah, I swear I heard old ladies say it when I was a kid in the 80s or 90s.

Did a quick search in some newspaper archives before I saw all the other replies, and confirm it was used in poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries long before Martin.

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Says who? You? ChatGPT? My grandmother used that phrase my entire life.

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To be fair this is literally the type of stuff people say during a Mandela Effect

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I swear I heard it on Seinfeld by Costanza

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*Kramer