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Re:Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life by rsanders on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:02PM (#9152000)
I think you might have that concept backwards. Danegeld was payment to "terrorists" presumably arrived at through the pragmatic notion that paying for protection was better than being dead.
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Re:Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:46PM (#9152394)
When people say "dane geld", they often refer to the poem of R. Kipling, "Dane-geld", which explains why you should not pay it. That's what I was referring to.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm

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