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. |