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#Danegeld #audioversity • ~~~ Danegeld ~~~ • Title: What is Danegeld? Explain Danegeld, Define Danegeld, Meaning of Danegeld • Created on: 2019-02-08 • Source Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld • ------ • Description: The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute 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 early twelfth 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 defence of the realm, was known as heregeld . Danegeld was mostly taken by the Norsemen from Sweden and Denmark. • ------ • To see your favorite topic here, fill out this request form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... • ------ • Source: Wikipedia.org articles, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... license. • Support: Donations can be made from https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/... to support Wikimedia Foundation and knowledge sharing.

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