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DanegeldLand tax, originally levied by Ethelred II to buy off the Danes. It was thus levied in 991, 994, 1007, and 1012. From 1012 to 1051, when it was abolished by Edward the Confessor, under the name of heregeld, it was an annual tax levied first to pay the Danish crews who had entered Ethelred's service and later to maintain a standing army. It was revived by William I and levied for the last time in 1162.
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