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This is great! Thanks for including the real background on the word so that it translates to "ill-advised."

Your post made me think of the Kipling poem about Dane-geld and the famous lines:

"And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we've proved it again and again,

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane."

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He also murdered his brother ( well, brother died in suspicious circumstances) suspicious enough that the king felt compelled to make a large grant of land to the church,which became Barton Abbey in Wiltshire. Original granary still standing , with much larger one built several centuries later. Since I knew about Aethelred and his chronic un-redeness, I was thrilled to visit. Didn’t know abut Danelaw fiasco tho.

Some things never change

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