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Danegelt

Danegelt is the alternative form of Danegeld.

Meaning of Danegeld

Noun

Danegeld (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
    Synonyms:
    heregeld
  2. (broadly) Any kind of tribute.
    • The best now pay danegeld to the sloths, the greedy, the manipulators. And congress has legitimized the channels of deceit through laws which pay danegeld to the most strident noise makers.1989, Irwin M. Ryan, The Last Congress, Remco, →ISBN

Questions about Danegelt

What is Danegelt the alternative form of?
Danegelt is the alternative form of Danegeld.

Words near Danegelt in the dictionary

  1. Dane-holes
  2. Dane-zaa
  3. Dane-ẕaa
  4. Danebrog
  5. danegeld
  6. Danegelt
  7. Danehower
  8. Danek
  9. Daneks
  10. Danelagh
  11. Daneland

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