Gododdin

Gododdin (pronounced ), refers to both the people and to the region of a Dark Ages Brythonic kingdom south of the Firth of Forth, extending from the Stirling area to the Northumberland kingdom of 'Brynaich', and including what are now the Lothian and Borders regions of eastern Scotland. Those living around Stirling were known as the Manaw Gododdin. The name Gododdin is the Modern Welsh form; it is derived, via earlier Welsh Guotodin, from Brythonic Votadini, attested in Latin texts.

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Gododdin became an independent kingdom following the break-up of the ancient British kingdom of the North, from about 470. Its capital was probably at first the Traprain Law hillfort in East Lothian, moving later to Din Eidyn. Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh is still known as D?n ?ideann in Gaelic.

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In the 6th century its southern neighbour 'Brynaich' was invaded by the Angles to become Bernicia.

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Firth of Forth: The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, and East Lothian to the south. The river is tidal as far inland as Stirling, but generally it is considered that the inland exte...