Gododdin, The

Description

The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, circa AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy. English translation with original Welsh on oppposite page.