How often do English language poets use French words (that are otherwise in reasonably common use in English as loan words) to alternate with the original English words for artistic variation? That s the situation here, not an actual switch of language.
I have heard it suggested that the Aramaic word is used here because this is a quotation of words addressed to Aramaic speaking vassals. But this seems less likely to me than artistic variation.
Levine dates P Persian primarily by the Aramaisms in P, such
as degel. Dahood believes the poem is 10th century.
Liz
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