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danegeldIn English history, a tax imposed from 991 onwards by Anglo-Saxon kings to pay tribute to the Vikings. After the Norman Conquest (1066), the tax was revived and was levied until 1162; the Normans used it to finance military operations. Danegeld was first exacted in the reign of Ethelred (II) the Unready (978-1016). This payment was distinct from the tax known as heregeld, which was levied annually between 1012 and 1051 to pay for a mercenary squadron of Danish ships in English service and to maintain a standing army. |
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But Kipling, who was a diverse poet, has an even more uncomfortable thought for this occasion: "And that is called paying the Dane-geld; / But we've proved it again and again, / That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld / You never get rid of the Dane. If once you have paid him the Dane-geld," wrote Kipling in one of his most famous verses, "You never get rid of the Dane. It was the moral equivalent of paying the Dane-geld. |
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