<P> Dani partem inferioris Galliae quam Brittones incolunt adeuntes, ter cum eisdem bellantes, superant; Nomenogiusque victus cum suis fugit, dein (per) legatos muneribus a suis eos sedibus amovit . </P> <P> A smaller group of Danes left Gaul intending to settle among the Bretons . Thrice doing battle with the same, they overcame them . The vanquished Nominoe fled with his own, then through messengers bearing gifts removed the same Danes from their settlements . </P> <P> The possibility that the Danes were bought off by methods other than the raising of cash is raised by an incident in 869, recorded in the aforementioned Annales and by Regino of Prüm . In that year Salomon, King of Brittany, put an end to some pagan raids by payment of five hundred heads of cattle . </P> <P> The more local type of danegeld is exemplified by two chronologically close events in the County of Vannes . According to a record in the cartulary of Redon Abbey, the bishop Courantgenus was ransomed from Viking captivity in 854 . His ransom was quite probably raised on a local level . In 855 the monks of Redon had to ransom the count, Pascwet, from a similar captivity by handing over a chalice and a paten, weighing together sixty - seven solidi in gold . Sometime later Pascwet managed to redeem the sacred vessels from the pagans, and this payment too may have been raised as a sort of danegeld . Certainly, according to Regino of Prüm, Pascwet later (in 873) paid a stipendiary danegeld of an undisclosed amount to hire as mercenaries some Vikings with which to harass his opponent for the ducal throne of Brittany, Vurfand, Count of Rennes . </P>

In return for the land they were given the danes promised to