The Battle of Aclea occurred in 851 between the West Saxons led by Æthelwulf, King of Wessex from 839 to what year, and the Danish Vikings?
Battle of Aclea The Battle of Aclea occurred in 851 between the West Saxons led by Æthelwulf, King of Wessex and the Danish Vikings. It resulted in a West Saxon victory.
Danegeld The Danegeld ( ; "Danish tax", literally "Dane tribute") was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the "geld" or "gafol" in eleventh-century sources. It was characteristic of royal policy in both England and Francia during the ninth through eleventh centuries, collected both as tributary, to buy off the attackers, and as stipendiary, to pay the defensive forces. The term "Danegeld" did not appear until the early twelfth century. In Anglo-Saxon England tribute payments to the Danes was known as "gafol" and the levy raised to support the standing army, for the defence of the realm, was known as "heregeld" (army-tax).