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noun
A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: heregeld
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any kind of tribute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncountable
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Danegeld.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Inherited from Middle English danegeld, from Dane, genitive plural of Dan (“Dane”), plus geld (“geld, tribute, payment”). Apparently modeled on a Scandinavian word such as Old Danish Danegjeld), from Old Norse *Danagjald, from the genitive plural of Danir (“Danes”) + gjald (“payment, tribute”).
Across languages
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