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Huzrah nu, kul do od, wah aan bok lingrah vod, Ahrk fin tey, boziik fun, do fin gein!
Hearken now, sons of snow, to an age, long ago, and the tale, boldly told, of the one!
(Book, Songs of Skyrim)

Qethsegol vahrukiv Vulgrum fin Zahkrii ko fin Ven, sovrahzun wen moro lost maltiid, nuz ko vahrukt unslaad.
This stone commemorates Vulgrum the Sword in the Wind, the mercenary whose glory was brief, but in memory eternal.
(Word Wall for Ven, Cyclone)

Rarely used, esp. in speech. Most commonly found in poetry where it can lend an extra syllable. See related word faal ‘the (formal)’, which is used more commonly in epithets and with proper nouns.