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Definition of Danegeld
1. n. An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
Definition of Danegeld
1. Noun. (history) A tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax. ¹
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Definition of Danegeld
1. an annual tax in medieval England [n -S]
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