"Thaneship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been in good hands, I know well," Wulf said," and right heartily do I thank you for having so well filled my place; but I would not take up my thaneship as yet I am but a boy, and have to learn my duties from you, and shall account myself but as your pupil. I know something of the ways of court, but nothing at all of those of the country, and it will be long before I am fit to take the control of ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty |
