"Yn dieding . . . . .
Ac Adan Cadvannan cochre,
Veirch marchawg goddrud y more."
"Resistless
As Aeddan of the blood-stained steeds of Mannan-fight,
He was an impetuous rider that morning."
Here we have three separate proofs of the fact, that Cadvannan was
anterior to the battle of Cattraeth: now when and where did that take
place? In the year 582, and probably at Clackmannan, on the Firth of
Forth in Scotland. Here is my authority (_Annals of Ulster_):
"DLXXXII. Bellum Manan, in quo victor erat Aodhan Mar Gawran."
The battle of Cattraeth must be that of 603, at which Aeddan was also
present.
These few annotations from a new translation of _The Gododin_ now in
MS., will, it is hoped, satisfy your correspondent GOMER that I am
justified in repeating the views of Davies. Should he wish to get a
correct text, and a judicious version of _The Gododin_, he had better
subscribe to a translation by the Rev. J. Williams (author of the
_Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry_), now about to issue from the
Llandovery press, at a very moderate price. Probert's translation is
very scarce.
Is there no tradition of this battle at Sigston?