This is preserved in some older speakers, as well as being an archaicism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is the modernity of the existential arrangement, in tension with the archaicism of the material culture, that makes Tolkien's myth haunting.
From the theatlantic.com
Few of these changes are to be observed in contemporary written records, thanks to the tendency towards archaicism driven by a desire to preserve the purity of the Cyrilo-Methodian tradition.