Work

Y Gododdin

The Gododdin

Author

Language

Year

c. 7th-11th century

Country

Wales

Genre

Poetry Collection

Y Gododdin

Y Gododdin is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth in about AD 600. It is traditionally ascribed to the bard Aneirin and survives only in one manuscript, the "Book of Aneirin".

Translations

The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales

tr. William Owen Pughe · Owen Jones · United Kingdom · 1801

The Gododdin and the Odes of the Months

tr. William Probert · E. Willams · United Kingdom · 1820

Y Gododin : A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth

tr. John Williams · Llandovery; Longman · United Kingdom · 1852

The Four Ancient Books of Wales: containing The Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century

tr. William Forbes Skene · Edmonston and Douglas · United Kingdom · 1868

The Earliest Welsh Poetry

tr. Joseph P. Clancy · Macmillan · United Kingdom · 1970

The Gododdin

tr. Desmond O'Grady · Dolmen Press · Ireland · 1977

The Gododdin

tr. Steve Short · Llanerch Press · United Kingdom · 1994

The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen

tr. Gillian Clarke · Faber and Faber · United States · 2022

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