“‘My Lord,” quoth Dunlang, “here is a man who was outlawed aforetime.’”
-The Grey God Passes
Quoth is possibly Howard’s most often used anachronistic term, employed in early modern, medieval and fantasy settings.
quoth
(kwōth)
tr.v. Archaic
Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following
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[Middle English, from Old English cwǣth, third person sing. past tense of cwethan, to say; see gwet- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
a•fore•time
(ə-fôr′tīm′) Archaic
adv.
At a former or past time; previously.
aforetime
(əˈfɔːˌtaɪm)
adv
archaic formerly
