>>16132377Exactly the point. You cannot write dialogue for modern TV, film or books in the original language used at the time. Instead, you have to try to use speech which will assist a modern audience with immersion in that period. Often this is hugely overdone, such as using thee and thou and putting -est or -eth on the end of verbs. Using ye is even worse, since that's not even authentic - there is an Anglo-Saxon letter called 'thorn' to represent the 'th' sound and the symbol looks like a 'y'... so later on, people read it and thought they said 'ye' for 'the'.
The best way to write pseudo-medieval dialogue is to shift word order and avoid contractions and modern usages and colloquial speech.
Another good touch is to distinguish between the class and social status of the speaker with their words - the educated noble would be more verbose, whereas a common-born speaker would use shorter, more pithy dialogue, with plenty of monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon root words.