The Votadini exodus to Wales

[Caturiga]

I'm not sure that anyone really, ultimately knows what Y Gododdin was about! :wink: Angles (Deira mostly) are certainly mentioned, but no actual reason is given for Gododdin's attack...hence there are many interpretations. As I understand it, it would be unwise to take it as a literal historical document - it may have been a praise poem commemorating an original event, but there is evidence of several textual alterations later in the text's life, and the most archaic version is vague enough to make a definite interpretation difficult.