"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?
THOS. STEPHENS.