11-04-2011, 11:25 PM
Actually I couldn't see any real archaic language here at all, just old fashioned poetic language of the good kind. It is hard to criticise something better than I could write, maybe I could say it should be more in meter, but then I personally like disturbed metre , not to say free verse, so it doesn't niggle me, but mght true Chaucerian scholars.
Whilst somene uses the words and others understand them they can't be archaic, can they? A lot of words used here in Yorkshire everyday have roots back in Old Danish (I suppose).
Hither, thither, whither, whence, thence, etc along with thee thou are still used up here admittedly by older folk mainly but not allus.
Whilst somene uses the words and others understand them they can't be archaic, can they? A lot of words used here in Yorkshire everyday have roots back in Old Danish (I suppose).
Hither, thither, whither, whence, thence, etc along with thee thou are still used up here admittedly by older folk mainly but not allus.