Danegelt
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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.
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