''threescore thousand crowns'' - is the correct number.  It is quite a large amount of money.  It is such a large amount that it is the approximate annual revenue that Denmark receives through duties and taxes collected at Elsinore Castle.

''threescore thousand crowns'' - is the correct number.  It is quite a large amount of money.  It is such a large amount that it is the approximate annual revenue that Denmark receives through duties and taxes collected at Elsinore Castle.

[[File:Century_fee2.jpg|right|"fee"(2) in the Century Dictionary]]

[[File:Century_fee2.jpg|right|"fee"(2) in the Century Dictionary]]

''in annual fee'' - in annual income from land revenue, that is, from the proceeds of land ownership.  In the case of a government installation, would be government revenue.

''in annual fee'' - in annual income from land value, that is, from the proceeds of land ownership.  In the case of a government installation, that would be government revenue.

See the dictionary definition.  The service Norway wants is the return of the land to Norwegian sovereignty.

See the dictionary definition.  The service Norway wants from Fortinbrasse, for him to earn that fee, is the restoration of the land to Norwegian sovereignty.

Claudius doesn't know that the land Norway means, for that ''fee'' is the land Claudius is currently occupying.  Claudius hasn't been King a year yet, far from it, and he hasn't "done his homework" to find out how much annual revenue Elsinore Castle produces.

Claudius doesn't know that the land Norway means, for that ''fee,'' is the land Claudius is currently occupying.  Claudius hasn't been King a year yet, far from it, and he hasn't "done his homework" to find out how much annual revenue Elsinore Castle produces.