Y Gododin: A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth by Aneirin

"Y Gododin: A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth" by Aneirin is a medieval Welsh poem dated between the 7th and early 11th centuries. It consists of elegies for three hundred warriors from the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin who died fighting the Angles at Catraeth around AD 600. After a year of feasting at Din Eidyn, the warriors attacked against overwhelming odds, and nearly all perished. The poem survives in a single 13th-century manuscript and ranks among the oldest Welsh works of poetry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Aneirin
Translator Williams, John, 1811-1862
Title Y Gododin: A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Gododdin
Credits Transcribed from the 1852 William Rees edition by David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Welsh
Language English
LoC Class PB: Language and Literatures: General works
Subject Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600 -- Poetry
Category Text
EBook-No. 9842
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Mar 30, 2009
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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