here-gild
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On þan ylcan geáre áléde Eádweard cyng ꝥ heregyld ꝥ Æþelréd cyng ǽr ástealde,
- Chr. 1052 ;
- P. 173, 18 .
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Ic ðat só fele síðe só men gildeð hire gilde tó heregilde,
- C. D. vi. 205, 23.
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Ab illa magna heregoldi exactione quae per totam Angliam fuit,
- 180, II .
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On þám geáre man gerædde ꝥ man geald ǽrest gafol Deniscan mannum . . . ꝥ wæs ǽrest .x. þúsend punda; þæne rǽd gerǽdde Síríc arceb.,
- Chr. 991 ;
- P. 127, 2-6 .
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Þá gerǽdde se cyng and his witan ꝥ him man gafol behéte . . . wið þon þe hí þǽre hergunge geswicon . . . him man geald .xvi, þúsend punda,
- 994 ;
- P. 129, 10-15 .
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Twá and twéntig þúsend punda goldes and seolfres mon gesedde þám here wið friðe.
- Ll Th. i. 288, ll.
To Wulfstan such taxes were 'scandlice nýdgyld,' and he reproaches his countrymen,
'Wé him(the Danes) gyldað singallíce and hý ús hýnað dæghwámlíce,'
- Wlfst. 163, 10 .
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That payment of the Danes was not always prompt will be seen from the following passage:
Gens pagana . . . promittebant se ad ecclesiam sancti salvatoris . . . ituros, et eam suis incendiis funditus delere, nisi pecunia, quae eis ab archiepiscopo Sirico promissa fuerat, ad plenum daretur,
- C. D. iii. 285, 5-11 . See
- Ll. Lbmn. ii. 344 :
- Chr. P. ii. 173-175 .
Bosworth, Joseph. “here-gild.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/52393.
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