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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dane·geld /ˈdenˌgɛld/
 丹麥稅賦

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dane·geld Dane·gelt, n.  Eng. Hist. 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.
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