LL-L "Oral tradition" 2004.07.20 (02) [E]

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From: John Duckworth <jcduckworth2003 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Oral Tradition


It seems that the earliest known reference to 'Arthur's Peak' only dates
back to the 15th century. There are ,however, the remains of an ancient
hillfort on the slopes of Arthur's Peak (as there are also underneath
Edinburgh Castle) and these forts were most probably built by the Brythonic
tribe known to the Romans as the Votadini. The word Votadini is a Latinized
form of the word Goutodin or later Gododdin, the name of the people and
kingdom that extended from Stirling to the River Tyne.Their first capital
was at Taprain Law in East Lothian and was then transferred to Edinburgh.
Their exploits are recorded in the Old Welsh epic poem Y Gododdin by
Aneirin. In this poem, which may well have been written in Edinburgh, the
city is referred to as Eidin, the forerunner of the Gaelic Dun Eideann,
which the English later Saxonized to Edin-burgh 'the Burgh (fort) of Edin'.

Edinburgh is mentioned a number of times in the Gododdin, as in stanza
60:(Joseph Clancy's translation)

'Thus had the Gododdin wine and mead in Eidin, ruthless in strife, firm
ranks.'

The poem also contains perhaps the earliest reference to Arthur, and proves
that the people of Gododdin must have known of him: (stanza 98):

'He brought black crows to a fort's wall, though he was not Arthur.'
((Describing the exploits of a warrior).

 John Duckworth
Preston, UK

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