"Danegelt" is a word in ENGLISH
An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy
off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose
them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at
first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of
land throughout the realm.
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.
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A young woman on a rough Atlantic crossing was in hercabin undressing then suddenly she was overcome by seasickness. In a panic she rushed into the corridor andheaded for the bathroom. It was not until she collidedwith an elderly gentleman that she realized she didn'thave a stitch of clothing on. Horrified, she let out ashriek. Her fellow sufferer looked at her sadly."Don't let it bother you, miss," he moaned. "I'll neverlive to tell anyone."
A tribute of Is. and afterwards of 2s. uf>on every hide of laud through the realm, levied by the An-glo-Saxons, …
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