Danegeld (English, noun)
expansion: Danegeld (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
tags: uncountable
glosses: Any kind of tribute.
tags: broadly
uncountable
Forms:
form: danegeld
tags: alternative
form: Danegelt
tags: alternative
form: danegelt
tags: alternative