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    Y Gododdin (Welsh: [əː ɡɔˈdɔðɪn]) is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies...
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    6th-century Welsh poem Y Gododdin, which memorialises the Battle of Catraeth and is attributed to Aneirin. The name Gododdin is the Modern Welsh form...
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  • erroneous. Whoever his father was, Aneirin's mother, Dwywei is mentioned in Y Gododdin. She may be the same lady who, according to Old Welsh pedigrees, married...
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    of their successors, the Gododdin kingdom. Eidyn's importance to the Hen Ogledd is reflected in the medieval poem Y Gododdin, which concerns a war band...
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    Welsh Dragon (redirect from Y ddraig goch)
    began to take the form of a term for a war leader, prince or ruler. In Y Gododdin, Aneirin describes his patron, Mynyddog Mwynfawr as "the dragon" when...
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  • important early poem Y Gododdin, attributed to Aneirin. In his Canu Aneirin Ifor Williams interpreted mynydawc mwynvawr in the text of Y Gododdin to refer to a...
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    Manaw Gododdin was the narrow coastal region on the south side of the Firth of Forth, part of the Brythonic-speaking Kingdom of Gododdin in the post-Roman...
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    Hen Ogledd (redirect from Y Gogledd Hen)
    Aeron and Calchfynydd. Eidyn, Lleuddiniawn, and Manaw Gododdin were evidently parts of Gododdin. The later Angle kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia both had...
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    historical figure. His name also occurs in early Welsh poetic sources such as Y Gododdin. The character developed through Welsh mythology, appearing either as...
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  • founded on the early Welsh language poem Y Gododdin (attributed to Aneirin), a Brittonic ruler of the kingdom of Gododdin in the Hen Ogledd ("Old North"; a Welsh...
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    Gildas and the poetry attributed to Taliesin and Aneirin—in particular y Gododdin, thought to have been composed in Scotland in the 6th century—Welsh sources...
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    derived from legends pertaining to King Arthur, such as the reference in Y Gododdin. Some support for this may be provided by several other hilltop and mountaintop...
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    and in later Welsh as Gododdin [ɡoˈdoðin]. One of the oldest known pieces of British literature is a poem called Y Gododdin, written in Old Welsh, having...
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    century. Y Gododdin was similarly copied around the same time. The two poems differ in the relative archaic quality of their language, that of Y Gododdin being...
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    as an interpolation in the manuscript of the early medieval epic poem Y Gododdin, attributed to the semi-legendary bard Aneirin. Dating the poem's composition...
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    mentioned poets, who is famed as the author of Y Gododdin, a series of elegies to the men of the kingdom of Gododdin (now Lothian) who died fighting the Angles...
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    are prominent in early Welsh mythology, with the Medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin repeatedly associating ravens with battles, bravery and death. The poem...
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  • of the Mabinogi. He is also to be found in the 6th century epic poem Y Gododdin where the word "Hir" is used to describe no less than seven individuals...
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    Welsh writings, suggested by way of pun in the Y Gododdin, and explicitly explained as "Steel Spear" in Y Seint Greal. Groos & Lacy 2002, p. 9. Koch, John...
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    evolved into Old Welsh. The surviving poem Y Gododdin is in early Welsh and refers to the British kingdom of Gododdin with a capital at Din Eidyn (Edinburgh)...
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    may well be an older attribution of red to the colour of the dragon in Y Gododdin. The story of Lludd a Llefelys in the Mabinogion wrote that the red dragon...
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    the poem relates that the Gododdin were massacred. The Irish annals record that in 638, after the events related in Y Gododdin, "Etin" was besieged by the...
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  • create one long poem called Y Gododdin. It records the Battle of Catraeth, fought between the Britons of the kingdom of Gododdin (centred on Eidyn, the modern...
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  • Caswallon. Reference is made to the "land of Manawyd" in the epic poem Y Gododdin. In 2001, the Yu-Gi-Oh! video game The Duelists of the Roses included...
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  • Middle Welsh spelling) is a hero mentioned in the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin, set sometime around 600, who fights and dies at the Battle of Catraeth...
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    2022 Black Void Antithesis "Death To Morality" Vocals Nyctopia Full Moon Calling "Full Moon Calling" The Wolves Of Avalon Y Gododdin "Men Of Gododdin"...
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    literature. The earliest tales are based on oral traditions: the British Y Gododdin and Preiddeu Annwfn, along with the Germanic Beowulf and Nibelungenlied...
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    alongside Cei in the early Arthurian poem Pa gur yv y porthaur?. Like his father is in Y Gododdin, Llacheu appears in the 12th-century and later Welsh...
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  • or hillfort associated with the kingdom of the Gododdin. The term Din Eidyn first appears in Y Gododdin, a poem that depicts events relating to the Battle...
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    Prince Aneirin of the Pennines (North West of England), writes the poem, "Y Gododdin", recording the events of the Battle of Catraeth. The Britons of Strathclyde...
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