Here-gild
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Sächsisches Altenglisches Wörterbuch - here-gild
Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:
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- here-gild
- n. A war-tax, the Danegild, tax to support an army :-- 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. i