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

By Matthew Firth, Research Fellow in Medieval History, Flinders University

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 another would stop coming.

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