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The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea?

The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea?

It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure...

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Matthew Firth