Gert Tinggaard id_orcid Svendsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 8834733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gert Tinggaard id_orcid Svendsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gert Tinggaard id_orcid |
| FAMILY NAME | Svendsen |
| SIGNATURE | SVENDSEN G T I O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Did Ethelred the Unready make optimal choices when paying Danegeld to Svein Forkbeard? Viking Age England and game theory
King Ethelred’s repeated payments to Viking armies are often portrayed as evidence of political weakness and strategic failure. This paper reinterprets these actions within a rational choice framework, asking whether Ethelred the Unready acted optimally when paying King Svein Forkbeard to withdraw from England between 991 and 1012. Drawing on historical evidence from five documented Danegeld payments, we develop a formal model in which tribute an…
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Did Ethelred the Unready make optimal choices when paying Danegeld to Svein Forkbeard? Viking Age England and game theory
King Ethelred’s repeated payments to Viking armies are often portrayed as evidence of political weakness and strategic failure. This paper reinterprets these actions within a rational choice framework, asking whether Ethelred the Unready acted optimally when paying King Svein Forkbeard to withdraw from England between 991 and 1012. Drawing on historical evidence from five documented Danegeld payments, we develop a formal model in which tribute an…
Appeasement (1 work) · Coercion (linguistics) (1 work) · Dynamic inconsistency (1 work) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (1 work) · Game theory (1 work) · Globalization and political ideologies (1 work) · Medieval Literature and History (1 work) · Payment (1 work) · Positive political theory (1 work) · Strategic interaction (1 work)