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Danegeld
The term Danegeld did not appear until the late eleventh century. It was the Norman administration who called the tax Danegeld.
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Danegeld
Danegeld, -gelt Eng. Hist. (ˈdeɪngɛld, -gɛlt) Also 4 Dangilde, 4–6 Danegilt, Dane gilt, 5–7 Dane ghelte, Daneghelt, 6 Dane gelt, 7 Danageld, 7–9 Danegelt. [Corresponds to ON. *Dana-giald, in ODa. Danegjeld, mod.Da. Danegæld, f. Dana-, Dane- + gjald, gjeld, payment, tribute, corr. to OE. ᵹield, ᵹild,...
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Dane-geld (poem)
It relates to the unwisdom of paying "Danegeld", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection money. The most famous lines are "once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."
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Dane-money
† ˈDane-money Obs. = Danegeld.1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) I. 679/1 Without paying of any manner of imposition or Dane-money.
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History
Anglo-Saxon silver pennies were the currency used to pay the Danegeld As an illustration of how heavy a burden the Danegeld was, more Anglo-Saxon pennies from the decades around the first millennium have been found in Denmark
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heregeld
heregeld Obs. exc. Hist. (ˈhɛrɪgɛld) Forms: 1 hereᵹield, -ᵹild, -ᵹyld, -ᵹeld, -ᵹeold, 7– heregeld, -gild. [OE. hęreᵹield, f. hęre host, the (Danish) army + ᵹield, ᵹyld, ᵹild payment, tribute, tax = OS. geld, OHG. gelt, ON. gjald, Goth. gild, tribute, payment. The OE. word did not survive into ME. It...
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Murdrum
When King Henry I granted tax liberties to London in 1133, he exempted the city from taxes such as scot, danegeld, and murdrum.
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who were the viking tributaries
He died in an unsuccessful attempt to impose a danegeld on the locals of the Ostergo.
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1000s in England
£24,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them leaving England. raid the south-east from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.
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£36,000 of Danegeld
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Anglo-Viking treaty of 994
of the English people led King Æthelred to sign a peace treaty with the Vikings, in which the king promised provisions and the payment (referred to as Danegeld The raiders were once again paid tribute, though this time the sum of Danegeld was £16,000.
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The Anglo-Saxon Peace Treaty of 991
This payment took the form of 'Danegeld', a tax raised to lessen the threat of viking attacks, and had been in use since the time of Alfred the Great. The battle and payment of Danegeld is noted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which states:Here Ealdormen Bryhtnoth was killed at Maldon, and in the same year
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Hessel Hermana
His name is then attached to the Dane Rudolf Haraldsson who invaded Oostergo in order to recover Danegeld (tribute) by force.
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Ulf of Borresta
Borresta) was a runemaster in the eleventh century Uppland, Sweden, and a successful Viking who returned from England three times with a share of the Danegeld Since there were many years between the danegelds, it is likely that Ulfr returned to Sweden after each danegeld to live as a wealthy magnate.
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Thingmen
a unit in the service of the Kings of England during the period 1013–1051, financed by direct taxation which had its origins in the tribute known as Danegeld This force, based at Greenwich, was paid with money collected through the tax system established to raise Danegeld.
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Sheriff's aid
England proposed in Woodstock, Oxfordshire that sheriff's aid should be paid not to the sheriffs, but into the royal treasury, in order to levy a sort of danegeld
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