AS Conquest

[Stanley Friesen]

At 03:11 PM 12/19/00 -0500, you wrote:

>This is interesting. Didn't both the Votadinii (Gododdin-sp?) and the
>Damnoni (same as Dyfed?) become nuclei of medieval Welsh statelets?

I believe this is the case, yes.  I believe it was Gwynedd and Dyfed.
[I have certainly long assumed that 'Dyfed' was derived from the older
tribal name].

>  The
>Votadini were originally in the area between Edinburgh and Northumbria,
>weren't they?

So I have heard.

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