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Din Eidyn
Din Eidyn was the Brittonic name of the fortress on the rock of Edinburgh, the chief stronghold of the post-Roman kingdom of Gododdin. The Welsh poem Y Gododdin describes its war band feasting there before the doomed attack on Catraeth. The Northumbrians besieged it in 638, and it later passed into English and then Scottish hands.
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