Natalie Solent explains, with reference to a favorite poem of mine (written in the Northwest Midlands dialect of Middle English, and one of the Three Great Works of 14th-century English literature), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Note: The versions I link to are edited by Tolkien, but the modern translations aren’t by him. Let me know if you find the Tolkien translation online, and I’ll link to it for the benefit of the Tolkien buffs. But really, you should read it in a nice glossed version in Northwest Midlands dialect!)
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