Y Gododdin (pronounced ) is a medieval
Welsh poem consisting of a series of
elegies to the men of the
Brittonic kingdom of
Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the
Angles of
Deira and
Bernicia at a place named
Catraeth in c. AD 600. It is traditionally ascribed to the bard
Aneirin and survives only in one manuscript, the
Book of Aneirin.