Don’t you just love old-fashioned words? I’m sure our Jamestown Hunt friends will agree with us! Participating in the Treasure Hunt last year improved my Old English reading comprehension. (Or more correctly, late Middle English. Old English is what you will find in Beowulf) I’ve had so much fun using old words to liven up my narratives or poems.
Here’s is a list of words that I’ve gathered which can certainly attribute to the “grand” factor if you happen to wish that for your writing.
“Forsooth” = in truth or indeed
“Gramercy” = Many thanks
“Anon” = referring to a specific time
“Forthwith” = soon
“Sirrah” = A term for a man of the lower class. Or for anybody that ruffles your feathers!
“Palfrey” = A woman’s saddle horse
“To wit” = That is to say…
“Perchance” = Perhaps
“Hence” = Away (get thee hence)
“Thereto” = In addition to that
“Astonied” = Astonished, stunned
“Assay” = Try
“Fain” = gladly
Of course, don’t try to pack them all into one sentence! You might end up with something incomprehensible like mine. 
“Unhand thou my palfrey’s harness sirrah, get thee hence…” and forthwith the astonied damsel assayed to scream, for perchance there wert a knight-errant close by, to wit, a knight in shining armor who would fain save her.
