Livre d'Or

My reaction, on the other side of the Atlantic, is closer to "are there really [contemporary]* accents where they do?" In my accent (New York American), "blood" has a schwa and rhymes with "thud," and neither rhymes with "good."

*I tend to assume that things that are spelled as if they rhyme, rhymed in the prestige dialect of the time when spelling was becoming fixed.