Definition

• This word occurs as early the year 1018 in a charter of King Canute. Cowel, in The Intrepreter, 1607, states that it "is a Tribute or Tax levyed for the Maintenance of an Army." Conf. German Heer Geld.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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