The Danegeldwas succeeded by the carucage, and the commutation of military service introduced the scutage, but these forms were of little immediate importance, though very significant for the future course of development.
About details we may be wrong, but that this term has a technical meaning which is connected with the levy of the danegeld we can not doubt.
It loses that meaning in course of time because the danegeld gives way before newer forms of taxation.
Danegeld appears as a gafol; but this is the common word for a rent paid by a tenant to his landlord.
After all, we are only supposing that the fashion in which the danegeld was put in charge resembled in some of its main outlines the fashion in which a very similar tax was put in charge under Richard I.
There is a valuable paper on this subject, A Short Account of Danegeld [by P.
The old danegeld is still being occasionally levied, and in the main the old assessment prevails.
The danegeld was being levied at the rate of two shillings on the hide, and therefore, if we would find the number of geldant hides, we have to multiply by ten the number of pounds that are set against the county.
In the first column of the following table we give, omitting fractions, the pounds that the counties contribute when a danegeld is levied, in the second and third the half-marks (6s.
In the third place, there might be the danegeld; but the danegeld was a tax, an occasional tax, and for the moment we may leave it out of our consideration.
And they shall be exempt from the payment of scot anddanegeld and the murder fine.
A threat of a Viking invasion caused William to reinstitute the danegeld tax.
Vikings made several invasions in the ninth century 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 barional estates.
These, with the Danegeld or land-tax levied since the days of Æthelred, formed as yet the main financial resources of the Crown, and their exaction carried the royal authority in its most direct form home to every landowner.
Canute therefore accepted the offer of the English, with the added condition that Danegeldshould be levied for the support of his army in Edmund's kingdom as well as in his own.
Thus began the Danegeld which seems to have developed into a permanent tax in the reign of Canute.
On the other hand, the fact that Edmund agreed to levy Danegeld in his own kingdom of Wessex looks suspiciously like the recognition of Canute as overlord of the southern kingdom.
The payment of Danegeld was an old story in English history and the end was not yet.
It continued to be levied until 1163, in which year the name Danegeldappears for the last time in the Rolls.
Hidage is historically connected with the old English Danegeld system, and in some cases its amount is set out separately from other payments, and the tenants of a manor have to pay it to the bailiff of the hundred and not to the steward.
It may be pronounced without hesitation to be no other than a geld-roll, recording, it would seem, a levy of Danegeld hitherto unknown.
Its illustrative value for Danegeld and the Hundred, and consequently for Domesday Book, will be obvious to every student.
The proportionate sums contributed by the several counties to the Danegeld present a fruitful field of inquiry, but one, it would seem, as yet unworked.
At the normal Danegeld rate of two shillings on the hide, an assessment of fifty hides would represent £5, one hundred hides £10, and so on.
As against this view I venture to hold that the danegeld was in no way compounded for, but that every penny raised by its agency was due to the royal treasury, leaving no profit whatever to the sheriff.
Recently, as our evidence leads us to believe, the king had given up the Danegeld as a tax which had declined in value until it was no longer worth collecting.
Danegeld and murder fines were also given up, and the local courts of the city were to have their regular sittings.
Besides all kinds of irregular expedients the Danegeld had been practically revived, and to it was now given the name of carucage, a tax of two shillings on every plough-land.
Danegeld to pay off the Danes--the first instance of a general tax in England.
He raised a Danegeld to satisfy his men, and sent his house-carls to force the people to pay the heavy tax.
At a Great Council at Woodstock he resisted the king's resolution to levy the old tax of Danegeld, and in consequence Danegeld was never levied again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "danegeld" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
