[DOC] [TLE] Danegeld - Wikipedia [PAR] The Danegeld 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. It 
was characteristic of royal policy in both England and Francia during the ninth 
through eleventh centuries, collected both as tributary, to buy off the ... Following 
thelred the kings of England used the same tax collection... [DOC] [TLE] Taxation in medieval England - Wikipedia [PAR] Taxation in medieval England was the system of raising money for royal and 
governmental ... The tax was known as Danegeld and was used to pay the 
raiders off rather than fight. In the 9th century Alfred the Great confronted the 
Viking problem. ... The reinforced military was needed, in the face of an invasion 
of England,... [DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 797 - BETTER KNOWN AS... - TriviaBistro ... [PAR] EAT, EAT!: In this Mideastern equivalent of a gyro, meat is shaved off a rotating 
vertical spit  NATIONAL PARKS ... SHOW ME THE MONEY!: The Danegeld was 
a centuries-long tax on landowners of this country used to pay off Viking invaders
. [DOC] [TLE] The Vikings and Money in England - viking.no [PAR] Among the results of the Viking invasions of England was an enormous ... from 
across the southern part of the North Sea, coins ceased to be used as money in 
... These payments were called 'Danegeld' (meaning 'Dane debt' or Dane 
payment). ... In Ireland in the 9th century they imposed a tax and slit the noses of 
anyone... [DOC] [TLE] Alfred and Vikings - United States Naval Academy [PAR] Jul 20, 2009 ... Why did the vikings suddenly appear in the late eighth century? .... individually, 
rowed to the attack, attempting to pick off isolated defending ships, if any, ..... "If 
once you've paid him the danegeld / You will never get rid of the Dane. ... In fact, 
from 876 to the great viking invasion of Paris in 885 there were no... [DOC] [TLE] English Logistics and military administration, 871-1066: The Impact ... [PAR] Jul 11, 2013 ... Almost immediately thereafter Harold learned of the invasion of Harald ... paid to 
the development of military administration in pre-Conquest England. ... Frankish 
chroniclers were struck by the Vikings' mobility and use of strategems. ..... of the 
kingdom remained a form of taxation levied upon landowners... [DOC] [TLE] thelred the Unready, King of the English: 1,000 years of bad press ... [PAR] Apr 21, 2016 ... A silver penny struck more than ten centuries ago (on display in the ... This 
coinage is material evidence of 'Dane-geld', money paid to England's enemies in 
attempts to forestall Viking invasions of England. ... Throughout history, 
thelred's payment of Dane-geld has been used as a short hand for drastic... [DOC] [TLE] Scandinavians - Chobham Village, England [PAR] 'Dane' tends to be used for the later more numerous Scandinavians, mainly from 
Denmark, ... Vikings invading Britain - an 11th century drawing. Saxon society 
flourished until England became one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. ... The 
Danegeld was paid by the King, who levied it on his landowners who of course... [DOC] [TLE] The Story of England: The End of the Saxon Kingdom | History Today [PAR] During the century that followed Alfred's defeat of the Danes the process of 
rebuilding Christian society went on faster in England than in any other country. 
Elsewhere the storm the English had stilled raged unabated; the Vikings, driven 
... in the payment of a danegeld, the invaders pounced on Canterbury and carried 
off the... [DOC] [TLE] Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck [PAR] By the middle of the eighth century Viking shipbuilding had advanced enough to 
... Harald's sons Halfdan Long-Leg and Gudrod Ljome killed Rognvald and sixty 
men .... Geyra and used force to subdue those Wends who had stopped paying 
her taxes. .... Denmark's Svein invaded England in 1070; but he was bought off 
by... [DOC] [TLE] Centuries

Question: The Danegeld was a centuries-long tax on landowners of this country used to pay off Viking invaders
Answer: England