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Revision as of 14:21, 10 July 2004 by Dave souza (talk | contribs) (stub expanded)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)In the 1st. Century the Romans recorded the Votadinias a British tribe inhabiting a kingdom south of the Forth, extending from the Stirling area to the Northumberland kingdom of 'Brynaich', and including the region now known as Lothian. The British form of the name, Gododdin, refers to both the people and to the region. Those living around Stirling were known as the Manaw Gododdin.
The kingdom apparently formed about 470 from the break-up of the ancient British Kingdom of the North. Its capital was probably at first the Traprain Law hillfort in East Lothian, moving later to Edinburgh Castle.
Its southern neighbour 'Brynaich' was invaded by the Angles to become Bernicia, and the Welsh poem 'Y Gododdin' records the disastrous Battle of Catraeth, a failed expedition to fight them back. By about 638 the capital of Gododdin had fallen to seige, and the region came under Anglo-saxon rule. To what extent the native population was replaced is unknown.
External Links:
http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/pages/histories-celtic-gododdin.html Ancient Lothian - Histories - Celtic Gododdin] Kingdoms of British Celts - Goutodin