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accepts the interpretation but suggests that a force of 300 men would be much too small to undertake the task demanded of them. He considers that the 300 mounted warriors would have been accompanied by a larger number of foot soldiers, not considered worthy of mention in the poem. A. O. H. Jarman
578:, which were possibly originally ruled by Britons. As such the Battle of Catraeth may have been an attempt to push back Anglo-Saxon expansion. At some time after the battle, the Angles absorbed the Gododdin kingdom and incorporated its territory into the kingdom of
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604:Y Gododdin
600:John James
504:Y Gododdin
475:Y Gododdin
456:, perhaps
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405:Brunanburh
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345:Two Rivers
330:Maserfield
74:54°22′38″N
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521:Edinburgh
517:Din Eidyn
428:Brythonic
315:Caer-Uisc
295:Degsastan
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235:Aylesford
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654:See also
576:Bernicia
564:Votadini
560:Scotland
549:Bernicia
525:Catraeth
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513:Gododdin
470:Pictland
454:Catraeth
446:Bernicia
424:Gododdin
400:Scotland
390:Ellandun
375:Hereford
290:Catraeth
220:Timeline
146:Strength
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63:Perhaps
59:Location
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490:In his
480:Aneirin
462:Gwynedd
438:Britain
340:Peonnum
335:Winwaed
300:Chester
275:Deorham
230:Guoloph
170:Unknown
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102:Result
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350:Trent
285:Raith
255:Badon
167:Heavy
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