I'm watching a Japanese TV drama. It is the story of a student whose body
sometimes is possessed by the spirit of a samurai. When the body of the
student is owned by the spirit of the samurai, the student uses words that may
belong to old periods. I want to know whether the use of the word "戦うて"
instead of "戦って" by the student in the below conversation is because of
aforesaid reason or not: "わしが その騎馬戦とやらで戦うてみせよう。"

By the way, please explain the function of "やらで" in the above sentence.
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Is it correct to use the word "戦うて" instead of "戦って"?
* Yes, 戦うて (pronounced タタコーテ) is an archaism for 戦って. It's an [ウ音便](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42890/5010) version of 戦いて (pronounced タタカイテ), which is an old form of 戦って (see [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/17497/5010)).
  * Xとやら means "what you call X", "something/someone called X" or "so-called X". This is a quotative-と followed by [this やら](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/62589/5010), but you can think of it as a fixed suffix-like expression. This usually has a nuance of being doubtful (i.e., "It's called X, but I'm not sure what X is or whether X is a correct name"). A samurai should be familiar with real cavalries, so he might have found it strange to call [this game](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A8%8E%E9%A6%AC%E6%88%A6) 騎馬戦.
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