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Title: Y Gododin
A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth

Author: Aneurin

Release Date: March 30, 2009 [eBook #9842]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1852 William Rees edition by David Price, email
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Y GODODIN

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A Poem
ON
THE BATTLE OF CATTRAETH,
BY
ANEURIN,
A WELSH BARD OF THE SIXTH CENTURY,
WITH AN
English Translation,
AND NUMEROUS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ANNOTATIONS;

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BY
THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS AB ITHEL, M.A.
RECTOR OF LLANYMOWDDWY, MERIONETHSHIRE.

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LLANDOVERY:
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM REES; LONDON,
LONGMAN, AND CO.

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MDCCCLII.

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WILLIAM REES, PRINTER, LLANDOVERY.

PREFACE

Aneurin, the author of this poem, was the son of Caw, lord of Cwm
Cawlwyd, or Cowllwg, a region in the North, which, as we learn from a
Life of Gildas in the monastery of Fleury published by Johannes a Bosco,
comprehended Arecluta or Strath Clyde. {0a} Several of his brothers seem
to have emigrated from Prydyn in company with their father before the
battle of Cattraeth, and, under the royal protection of Maelgwn Gwynedd,
to have settled in Wales, where they professed religious lives, and
became founders of churches. He himself, however, remained behind, and
having been initiated into the mysteries of Bardism, formed an intimate
acquaintance