Usually means: Tax paid to stop Viking raids.
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  1. danegeld: Merriam-Webster
  2. Danegeld: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Danegeld: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Danegeld: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Danegeld: Wordnik
  6. Danegeld: Wiktionary
  7. Danegeld: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Danegeld: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Danegeld: Dictionary.com
  10. Danegeld: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Danegeld: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Danegeld: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. danegeld: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Danegeld: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. DANEGELD: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. Danegeld: Encyclopedia

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  1. DANEGELD, DANEGELD, DANEGELD: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (Danegeld)

noun:  (history) 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.
noun:  (by extension) Any kind of tribute.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Danegeld. [(history) 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.]

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