Meets he with an eldern man, All with hair so grey; "Why art thou so silent, Guest the Blind, And wherefore dost thou stray?
Guest goes wandering from the hall, Silent and blind is he; Meets he with an eldern man All with hair so grey.
O 2 O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee: 'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever saild the sea.
Up and spak an eldern knicht, Sat at the kings richt kne: 'Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor That sails upon the se.
Up and spak an eldern knicht, Sat at the kings richt kne: Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor, That sails upon the se.
Up and spak an eldern knicht, 5 Sat at the kings richt kne: Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor, That sails upon the se.
O up and spake an eldern knight, 5 Sat at the king's right knee: "Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Up and spak an eldern knicht, 5 Sat at the kings richt kne: "Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor, That sails upon the se.
Let it also here be noted that the eldern knight in that ballad sits 'at the king's knee,' and the nurse in Gil Morrice is not very necessarily described as having 'the bairn upon her knee.
Up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee: 'Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor That sails upon the sea.
What the wily lord does in verse fifth is the exact counterpart of the account of the eldern knight in Sir Patrick Spence: Up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee.
Compare this with the second verse of Sir Patrick Spence: O up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eldern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
