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**Maion Maroneios** · 01-27-2009, 23:08

Aha, now I get the picture

Cool stuff, and let me tell you that I am an Heterogenes (or half-breed

) myself with Barbarian genes, so I have more respect to you

Maion

**Macilrille** · 01-27-2009, 23:21

I still want Danegeld ;-)

**Maion Maroneios** · 01-28-2009, 01:16

Yet again, you seem to distant yourself from me (or rather the other way around). What's Danegeld?

Maion

**Macilrille** · 01-28-2009, 01:49

You will learn. I thought anyone with an interest in history knew that ;-)

Danegeld was money (silver) that Frankish and British rulers paid the Vikings to sail away peacefully. In the late 10th- early 11th century the sums brought to Denmark and S. Sweden by the armies of Sven Tveskæg and Knud d. Store were enormous.

**Maion Maroneios** · 01-28-2009, 01:55

Aha, I see. I already made a connection between Geld (which also means money in Dutch, from where I hail partially) and gold/silver. And my interest in history is (for the time being) limited to Classical and Hellenistic times.

Maion