>>> Any road, the child is safe now.
>>
>>Where does this variation on anyway come from? I've seen it only in a
>>game before (over in FFXIV) and took it for something they'd invented
>>for pseudo-medieval flavor, but clearly it has a more general source.
>
>I'm not 100% sure, but I want to say it comes from one of the dialects
>of the North of England—maybe Yorkshire? Victor's journal
>probably isn't actually in English, so in this case it's
>probably standing in for a similarly archaic phrase from northern
>Gallic.

I know it was in use in the Liverpool area: I picked it up myself from the Beatles.