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here-gild

  • noun [ neuter ]
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here-gild, es; n.
A war-tax, the Danegild, tax to support an army
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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.
  • 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.
  • Scotfré fram heregeld

    free from payment of the war-tax,

    • Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iv. 224, 20.
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  • here-gild, n.