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Danegeld (/ˈdeɪnɡɛld/; "Danish tax",
literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax
raised to pay
tribute or
protection money to the
Viking raiders to save...
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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...
- two
danegelds in England. It does not
mention which leaders paid the
danegelds,
unlike the
other two
runestones in
Uppland that talk of
danegelds, U 344...
- who
after winning the
Battle of
Maldon were able to
extract the
first Danegeld from King Æthelred.
After the
Norman Conquest much of the
county became...
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daughter of
Richard I, Duke of Normandy. In 1018,
having collected a
Danegeld amounting to the
colossal sum of £72,000
levied nationwide, with an additional...
- at
Easter 1084 but may have been in
England before then to
collect the
danegeld ****essed that year for the
defence of
England against an
invasion by King...
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English bought a
truce for £24,000. Æthelred's
frequent payments of
immense Danegelds are
often held up as
exemplary of the
incompetency of his
government and...
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rather than fight, he
would pay
ransom to the
Danes in a
system known as
Danegeld. As part of the ransom, a
peace treaty was
drawn up that was
intended to...
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their attacks across Southern England, but only
after a
large series of
danegeld payments were made,
eventually culminating to 48,000
pounds of silver....
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Danish nobles to keep them from
English coasts.
These payments,
known as
Danegelds,
crippled the
English economy. Æthelred then made an
alliance with Normandy...
