Expression: "I am come safe into..."

[Tom]

Hi

The following sentence (the red part) confused me. It is from the movie “First knight”. Could you please shed some light on it.

Tell her I [color=red]am come safe into the new city.

Tom

[Molly]

Old version for “I have arrived safely”?

[Tom]

Tell her I [color=red]am come safe into the new city.

Is this expression used these days?

Tom

[Molly]

@Tom

Tell her I [color=red]am come safe into the new city.

Is this expression used these days?

Tom

I’m sure it is, but not in seriousness, I imagine.

[MrPedantic]

Some intransitive verbs (particularly of motion or change, e.g. “come”, “gone”, “become”) can take the auxiliary “be”:

1. They are all gone into the world of light.
2. All is changed, changed utterly.

In ordinary English, it would now seem old-fashioned or literary.

MrP

[Molly]

Here’s something similar:

While I am happy to pass on what knowledge I have, I am always ready to listen to someone who knows more than me. This is, after all, how we all gain knowledge and pick up useful tips. However, once in a while I am visited by a "self-proclaimed expert. I can usually tolerate him, nodding tactfully when I feel it is appropriate, and being carefully non-committal when he makes any sweeping statements.

From: Practical fishkeeping. Peterborough, Cambs: EMAP Pursuit Pub. Ltd, 1992.

The sentiment doesn’t seem archaic, IMO, but the grammar does.

[MrPedantic]

@Molly

However, once in a while I am visited by a "self-proclaimed expert.

The sentiment doesn’t seem archaic, IMO, but the grammar does.
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1. They are all gone into the world of light.
2. I am visited by an expert.
3. I was visited by an expert.

#2 is a normal passive structure: “visit” here is transitive.

In #1, however, “go” is intransitive.

The two structures are therefore not the same.

(Cf. #3; a past passive is more usual than a present passive, which may be why #2 sounds “archaic” to you.)

MrP

[Molly]

The two structures are therefore not the same.

Indeed not.