| The Danegeld was a tax created by English rulers to pay for the defense of their country from Viking raiders. |
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| 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. |
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| The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. |
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| The time honoured methods of ransom, Danegeld and baptism of Viking leaders continued to be more successful. |
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| These were known as Danegeld, land tax, and Queen Anne's Bounty. |
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| This was followed by attempts to buy off the Danes by the payment of immense sums as Danegeld, a course of action suggested by Archbishop Sigeric. |
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| To keep the Viking raiders away, the English paid a tax or Danegeld to prevent their land being ravaged. |
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| Sweyn soon accepted a further payment of Danegeld from William, and returned home. |
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| But if he was prepared to pay o the invaders with Danegeld, his people were not so feeble, as was shown by the men of Essex. |
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| And the request for cash from a Danish king brought back all those bad memories of Danegeld, or, as we might call it, Viking protection money. |
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| As Sweyn had by now been bought off with a large Danegeld, Malcolm took his army home. |
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| However, rather than buying the Vikings off, payment of Danegeld only encouraged them to come back for more. |
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| Equity and corporate-bond markets have duly responded, rallying strongly this year. But it is all rather reminiscent of Ethelred the Unready, an 11th-century king of England who paid Danegeld to buy off Viking invaders. |
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| Tony Martin won the Duke of Gloucester Memorial Hunters' Chase for the second year running when Ships Decanter, ridden by his friend John Nicholl, beat Danegeld by 13 lengths. |
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| Sinclair, who clearly loves money, takes us from Danegeld to the nickel and brass lump we use today, via all the glory years when the British quid dominated the world. |
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| In some years half the money minted at the English mints went in Danegeld. |
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