danegeld (altenglische grundsteuer)

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danegeld
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