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danegeld

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n.
抗丹税〔盎格鲁-萨克逊时代为反丹麦入侵而征收的一种税,后作为土地税沿袭征收〕。

The Danegeld (; "Danish tax", literally "Dane Money") was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources;Gafol, gyld and in one instance heregild appear in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century.

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