Dangers of 'Danegeld'; Nations should recall Kipling's warning about paying off pirates.(COMMENTARY) The Washington Times (Washington, DC) (7/15/2011)
...deal and the British and French paid Danegeld (Danish tax) to avoid Viking attacks...their next demand was higher. While the Danegeld in 990 A.D. was 11,500 ounces of...described the practice aptly in his poem Danegeld : It is always a temptation for a rich...
OPINION: It's Time for Corporations to Stop Paying Danegeld. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (5/16/2004)
...attacking you. Tenth century England paid Danegeld to buy off its Viking invaders -- who...Today, companies pay their environmental Danegeld with vast glossy brochures showing how...planet. And they pay their stakeholder Danegeld by agreeing to consult everyone imaginable...
Probably the heaviest tax in the world.(Features) The Birmingham Post (England) (1/24/2008)
...this kind of thing. They called it "Danegeld", and from that point onwards the English...mints (mostly silver pennies) went in Danegeld. Not surprisingly, then, if you...picked up on this fact in a poem called Danegeld: But we've proved it again and again...
Fed up with paying tax? Blame it on the French! Daily Mail (London) (3/7/2001)
...hordes led to the rise of a tax called Danegeld. An unprepared England was unable to...the East coast. So King Alfred levied Danegeld - literally money for the Danes - in...to 1016, that things got so bad that Danegeld had to be raised on an annual basis...
Will Alex ever be bought off with handouts? Daily Mail (London) (2/20/2008)
...concession after another. He called it 'paying the Danegeld'. Originally Danegeld was money paid by Ethelred the Unready to persuade...again andagain, that if once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of theDane'. Quite so. Will...
'Success' in N. Korea will fail in long run Chicago Sun-Times (2/20/2007)
...And that is called paying the Danegeld; But we've proved it again and...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld You never get rid of the Dane...the United States -- i.e., Danegeld. Is it really that simple? No...
My heart aches for Kenneth Bigley and his family. But it will be the road to hell if we pay to win his freedom. Daily Mail (London) (9/30/2004)
...his astonishingly perceptive poem Danegeld, about the money paid by Anglo...And that is called paying the Danegeld, But we've proved it again and...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane...
The Yongbyon test. (North Korea delays inspection of nuclear reactor in Yongbyon) (Editorial) The Economist (US) (6/4/1994)
...fuel rods in Yongbyon beyond the bounds of checkability. The Danegeld option is even more desperate. This holds that a large enough...is also about the power of example. If Mr Kim is given his Danegeld, next year's planned attempt to extend the non-proliferation...
The price the Saxons put on a sex pest . . . Daily Mail (London) (2/6/1999)
...Aethelred was continually paying large sums of money, called danegeld, to the invaders under Sweyn Fork-beard to go away. They...back next year for more. NOW THE authors, astutely, see danegeld as evidence that England must have been doing well economically...
TONY PARSONS: WE'LL ALL PAY FOR RANSOM.(Features) The Mirror (London, England) (10/4/2004)
...tried to bribe Danish invaders into peace: And that is called paying the Danegeld, But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane. Buying off terrorists is gutless, stupid...
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