“‘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