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'''Y Gododdin''' is the earliest known British poem, and is attributed to [[Aneirin]] in about 600 CE. The poem describes warriors feasting in a great hall before setting out to die in a heroic battle against the Saxons from which none returned. | '''Y Gododdin''' is the earliest known British poem, and is attributed to [[Aneirin]] in about 600 CE. The poem describes warriors feasting in a great hall before setting out to die in a heroic battle against the Saxons from which none returned. | ||
by William F. Skene | by William F. Skene | ||
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Y Gododdin is the earliest known British poem, and is attributed to Aneirin in about 600 CE. The poem describes warriors feasting in a great hall before setting out to die in a heroic battle against the Saxons from which none returned. by William F. Skene [1869]
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, November 2002. John B. Hare, redactor This is the 'Gododdin'. Aneurin composed it.
In the 1869 translation by William Skene, the first verse reads:
- Of manly disposition was the youth,
- Valour had he in the tumult;
- Fleet thick-maned chargers
- Were under the thigh of the illustrious youth;
- A shield, light and broad,
- Was on the slender swift flank,
- A sword, blue and bright,
- Golden spurs, and ermine.
- It is not by me
- That hatred shall be shown to thee;
- I will do better towards thee,
- To celebrate thee in poetic eulogy.
- Sooner hadst thou gone to the bloody bier
- Than to the nuptial feast;
- Sooner hadst thou gone to be food for ravens
- Than to the conflict of spears;
- Thou beloved friend of Owain!
- Wrong it is that he should be under ravens.
- It is evident in what region
- The only son of Marro was killed.