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What is Danegeld?

What is Danegeld? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax.
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So he needed to billet a large army on his people in preparation for the feared invasion and raise a Danegeld to pay for it.
It continued to be levied until 1163, in which year the name Danegeld appears for the last time in the Rolls.
To keep the Viking raiders away, the English paid a tax or Danegeld to prevent their land being ravaged.
The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders.
These sums included rent from royal estates, the Danegeld land tax, the fines from local courts, and aid from baronial estates.
These were known as Danegeld, land tax, and Queen Anne's Bounty.

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