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A TAX IMPOSED ON LAND TO BUY OFF THE DANES FROM THE SHORES OF ENGLAND, AND SUBSEQUENTLY FOR OTHER OBJECTS
Danegelt; Dane-geld; Dane Geld; Uppland Rune Inscription 195; Danegold; The Danegeld; Danish tax; Dane tribute; Gafol; Heregeld

Danegeld         
·noun ·Alt. of Danegelt.
Danegeld         
['de?ng?ld]
¦ noun a land tax levied in Anglo-Saxon England to raise funds for protection against Danish invaders.
?taxes collected for national defence by the Norman kings until 1162.
Origin
OE, from ON Danir 'Danes' + gjald 'payment'.
Danegeld         
Danegeld (; "Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources.

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Danegeld

Danegeld (; "Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources. It was characteristic of royal policy in both England and Francia during the ninth through eleventh centuries, collected both as tributary, to buy off the attackers, and as stipendiary, to pay the defensive forces. The term danegeld did not appear until the late eleventh century. In Anglo-Saxon England tribute payments to the Danes was known as gafol and the levy raised to support the standing army, for the defense of the realm, was known as heregeld (army-tax).

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