Crossword-Solution: DANEGELD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Danegeld | n. | Alt. of Danegelt |
We have 5 clues for the answer “DANEGELD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ENGLISH land tax (hist.) | 1 answer |
| Taxation | 3 answers |
| ANGLO-SAXON tax | 11 answers |
| Tax | 60 answers |
| exaction | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DANEGELD (5)
Ethelred, who had to suffer from evils that were incurable as well as for his predecessors' neglect, bought off the raiders with ever- increasing bribes which tempted them to return; and by levying Danegeld to stop invasion, set a precedent for direct taxation which the invaders eventually used as the financial basis of efficient government.
The Danegeld, which William imposed after the Domesday survey, was assessed on the hundreds, as though there were no smaller units from which it could be levied.
King Ethelred and his cowardly, selfish Court were well satisfied with this expedient, and the tax called Danegeld was laid upon the people, in order to raise a fund for buying off the enemy.
Danish Vikings made several invasions in the 800s for which a danegeld tax on land was assessed on everyone every ten to twenty years.
These sums included rent from royal estates, the Danegeld land tax, the fines from local courts, and aid from baronial estates.