Votadini (Celtic tribe )

The Votadini are a people of the Iron Age in Great Britain, and their territory is briefly part of the Roman province Britannia.

Their territory is in what is now southeast Scotland and northeast England, extending south of the Firth of Forth and extends from the Stirling area down to the English River Tyne, including at its peak what are now the Falkirk, Lothian and Borders regions of eastern Scotland, and Northumberland in north east England.

Their capital is probably the Traprain Law hill fort in East Lothian, until that is abandoned in the early 400s, moving to Din Eidyn (Edinburgh).The name is recorded as Votadini in classical sources.

Their descendants are the early medieval kingdom known in Old Welsh as Guotodin, and in later Welsh as Gododdin.One of the oldest known pieces of British literature is a poem called 'Y Gododdin', written in Old Welsh, having previously been passed down via the oral traditions of the Brythonic speaking Britons.

This poem celebrates the bravery of the soldiers from what was later referred to by the Britons as 'Yr Hen Ogledd' - The Old North; a reference to the fact that this land was lost in battle to an invading force at Catraeth,(modern day Catterick).

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