What was the name of the 6/7th century Welsh-language poet who wrote 'The Gododdin'?
Gododdin Gododdin The Gododdin () were a P-Celtic-speaking Brittonic people of north-eastern Britannia, the area known as the Hen Ogledd or Old North (modern south-east Scotland and north-east England), in the sub-Roman period. Descendants of the Votadini, they are best known as the subject of the 6th-century Welsh poem "Y Gododdin", which memorialises the Battle of Catraeth and is attributed to Aneirin. The name "Gododdin" is the Modern Welsh form, but the name appeared in Old Welsh as "Guotodin" and derived from the tribal name "Votadini" recorded in Classical sources, such as in Greek texts from the Roman period. It is
Y Gododdin in Middle Welsh orthography and partly in Old Welsh. The early date would place its oral composition soon after the battle, presumably in the "Hen Ogledd" ("Old North"); as such it would have been written in the Cumbric dialect of Common Brittonic. Others consider it the work of a poet from Wales in the 9th, 10th, or 11th century. Even a 9th-century date would make it one of the oldest surviving Welsh works of poetry. The Gododdin, known in Roman times as the Votadini, held territories in what is now southeast Scotland and Northumberland, part of the "Hen Ogledd". The