I always thought “lollygag” was a southern speech idiom, like “piddling” or “dilly-dallying.”

Dorothy and friends wend their way along the aureate, anfractuous road and only lollygagged for some flowers.

From wence doth thou wend?

Ignominious

adjective;

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

“the party risked ignominious defeat”

Just an idea for part 6

Fun fact: The past tense of “wend” was once “went”, but that was co-opted for the past tense of “go”, and the past tense of wend is now “wended”.

“But what was the past tense of ‘go’ before that?”

Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but “goed” does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular “yode” / “yoed” is closer to the old form and is also possible.

Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as “do” becoming “did” suggests a less likely “gid”, “gig”, “ging” or even “gang” (compare “sang”).

Whiterun guard would like to know your location

Hey I know aureate from the Red Riding series! (DAMN good series btw)