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I read something referencing the "Mortgage of Denmark", where a King basically 'sold' different parts of the country to German rulers and subsequent Kings had to buy the land back. Is there somewhere I can learn more about how this happened? How does a country mortgage its territory?

by /u/zachar3 in /r/AskHistorians

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