here-gild
- noun [ neuter ]
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Hér wæs ðet heregeold gelǽst ðæt wǽron xxi þúsend punda and xcix punda
in this year the Danegild was paid, it was twenty-one thousand and ninety-nine pounds,
- Chr. 1040; Erl. 167, 23.
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Swá fela sýðe swa menn gyldaþ heregyld oððe tó scipgylde
quotiens populus universus persolvit censum Danis, vel ad naves seu ad arma,
- Chart. Th. 307, 23.
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Scotfré fram heregeld
free from payment of the war-tax,
- Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iv. 224, 20.
Bosworth, Joseph. “here-gild.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18884.
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