Lexicographical Neighbors of Danegelds
Literary usage of Danegelds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"593), in which it is compared with the earlier danegelds of ^Ethel- red and Cnut,
see above, pp. 371, 418, and declared to have been heavier than any of ..."
2. The Ancient Laws of Wales: Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They by Hubert Lewis (1889)
"... to the prior and monks of Spalding in Lincolnshire, relating to lands there,
they were to hold free from all gelds, danegelds, carriages, shires, suits, ..."
3. The History [of The] Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1768)
"... the augmentation of the charge, the produce was little more than had been
obtained from former danegelds. We are told by iicn the author of the dialogue ..."
4. Canute the Great: 995 (circ.)-1035 and the Rise of Danish Imperialism During by Laurence Marcellus Larson (1912)
"But so often had danegelds been levied that it was becoming difficult to collect
the money and the payment was not so prompt as the vikings desired. ..."
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