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Y Gododdin

Y Gododdin

Y Gododdin is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth in about AD 600. It is traditionally ascribed to the bard Aneirin and survives only in one manuscript, the Book of Aneirin.


“The men went to Catraeth, swift was their host, the pale mead was their feast and it was their poison.”

Stanza A8, pp. 118.
"This famous quotation does not mean that the Gododdin army was too drunk to fight properly, but that they lost their lives in 'earning their mead'" (Jackson The Gododdin p. 35).
Y Gododdin

“He glutted black ravens on the rampart of the stronghold, though he was no Arthur.”

Stanza B38, p. 112.
Possibly the earliest reference to King Arthur.
Y Gododdin

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