Gododdin

Gododdin (pronounced [ go'doðin ] ) is the name of a tribe of Britons. They settled at the end of the Roman era in what is now northeastern England and southeastern Scotland at the upper end of the Firth of Forth. The Gododdin by the resulting in the 7th century heroic epic Y Gododdin, Aneirin which is ascribed are known.

In the name Gododdin is the modern Welsh pronunciation. He comes from the old Welsh name of the tribe Guotodin, this in turn derived from the ancient British Votadini. In the resulting in the 2nd century geographer Ptolemy of Geographike Hyphegesis they are called Uotadini.

Kingdom of Gododdin

Formation

Morris believed that it is Coel Hen, the ( York) the northern capital of Britain took over, during the Roman deduction from Britain around the year 410 Eburacum to the last Roman military governor, the Dux Britanniarum ( Duke of the Britons ) are. In the following years he became a High King of Northern Britain. He ruled over the former northern Roman provinces, possibly about the area that populated the Votadini. This area was later referred to in poems as Hen Ogledd. Since after his death, his empire began to fall apart, covered in 470 Gododdin most of the settlement area of ​​the Votadini, while the southern part between the rivers Tweed and Tyne to the Kingdom Bryneich was. In Cunedda or Cunedag called, the legendary founder of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales, it is believed that he was a warlord Manaw Gododdin, who left at that time Gododdin to the southwest.

Expansion

The expansion of the Kingdom of Gododdin is not precisely known. Maybe it was enough in the north of the Scottish city of Stirling to the past in today's Northumberland UK Bryneich. Gododdin was bounded on the west by the British Kingdom of Strathclyde, to the north by the tribes of the Picts. Living in Clackmannanshire Gododdin also be used as Manaw Gododdin (Watson, 1926; Jackson, 1969) referred to. The kings of Gododdin lived alternately in accordance with the traditions of the area around the Traprain Law and Dùn eideann (fixing of Eidyn ) today Edinburgh. Maybe they stayed on in Din Baer ( Dunbar ).

Conquest Gododdins

In the 6th century the adjoining Gododdin in the south Bryneich Kingdom was conquered by the Angles and became the Anglo -Saxon kingdom of Bernicia. The pressure of the directed fishing in the aftermath of the North against Gododdin. Around the year 600, there was the battle of Catraeth (probably in the area around Catterick ). 300 warriors of the Gododdin were killed in this battle. One of the survivors, the poet Aneirin, wrote his impressions of the heroic epic Y Gododdin.