Great pie are usually served in great festivities, such as wedding feasts.[1][2]
About
Great pies for wedding feasts can be filled with doves and songbirds, with the birds flying away after the pie is cut.[1][2]
History
Pigeons and doves were part of the great pie at the wedding at Whitewalls.[1]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
A hundred doves are baked into a great pie for the wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[3] The royal couple cut the pie with Ser Ilyn Payne's new silver greatsword, allowing the birds to escape during the wedding feast.[2]
Quotes
Joffrey and Margaery joined hands to lift the greatsword and swung it down together in a silvery arc. When the piecrust broke, the doves burst forth in a swirl of white feathers, scattering in every direction, flapping for the windows and the rafters. A roar of delight went up from the benches, and the fiddlers and pipers in the gallery began to play a sprightly tune.[2]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 12, Tyrion II.