The Votadini (Wotādīnī, or Votādīnī) were people of the island of Brittany to the age of iron. Their territory also formed part of the Roman province of Brittany. It extended between south-west of what is today the Scotland and the North-East of the England, that is to say between the area of Stirling to the river the Tyne, thus including the current areas of Falkirk, Lothian and Borders in Scotland, and Northumberland in the North-East of Angleterre.
Their capital was certainly the fort on the hill of Traprain in the East Lothian, until its abandonment at the beginning of the 4th century, to settle with DIN Eidyn (Edinburgh).

Their descendants of the period post-Roman and the beginning of the Moyen-âge are known under the name of Gododdin, a kingdom which appears towards 470, close to another kingdom of Brynaich, which is him enters Tweed and the Tyne. Cunedda, founder of the kingdom of Gwynedd in Wales, is supposed to have been a Gododdin chief who emigrated towards south-west.

The two kingdoms of Gododdin and Brynaich fell under the push from the Angles from Bernicie. These are these events that the bard Aneurin reports.

People brittonic

They are regarded as people of brittonic Langue the more so as they left their trace in the literature, with the poem Y Gododdin of the Breton bard Aneurin at the 7th century. The man and work were annexed then by the Welsh Littérature.

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