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Danegeld vs Carucage - What's the difference?

danegeld | carucage |

As nouns the difference between danegeld and carucage

is that danegeld is danegeld while carucage is (historical) a form of land taxation that replaced danegeld in twelfth-century england.

danegeld

English

(wikipedia Danegeld)

Alternative forms

*Danegelt

Noun

(-)
  • (history) A tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt .

    • carucage

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia carucage) (-)
  • (historical) A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England
  • (obsolete) The act of ploughing.
    • (Webster 1913)