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I came across this line recently and don't know how to interpret it. For
context, the speaker is the commander of a foreign army and his forces have
just met those of the アギマ王国 on the battlefield. He says this line to the アギマ
army's commander before the battle.

> ついに追い詰めたぞ！この度こそワシが勝利し、アギマの領地を削り取ってくれん！

I initially assumed くれん was the shortened form of 呉れない but that doesn't make
much sense, does it? Could someone explain what くれん is doing here?
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The meaning of てくれん in 「アギマの領地を削り取ってくれん」
This is a combination of the followings:

  1. "Arrogant and derogatory くれる", used when the speaker does something bad to others or when someone does something bad to the speaker

    * [Why is くれる used here and not あげる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/40560/5010) (see the third example)
    * [Using くれる for doing something bad](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/938/5010)
  2. Archaic volitional auxiliary む, which is also written as ん

    * [archaic -an conjugation](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/14414/5010)
    * [What is the verb ending of われん mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33867/5010)

So 削り取ってくれん is an even more pompous/arrogant/old-fashioned version of
削り取ってくれよう or 削り取ってやろう (This やる is used in the second sense
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14416/5010).)
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