TarkabarkaHolgy, 
Hi, I'm a professional storyteller, and here's today's PSA:
"Folktale language" only sounds archaic because many stories were written down and thus canonized a century ago.
Folktales in a living oral tradition always used contemporary language.
Case in point: a Hungarian folktale I just read, collected recently, that opens with "So, there was this king, and he managed to knock up a handmaid."
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