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Mynyddog Mwynfawr

fl. c. 600 · 7th century

Mynyddog Mwynfawr was a ruler of the Gododdin, the Brittonic people of south-east Scotland, known from the early Welsh poem Y Gododdin attributed to Aneirin. The poem tells how he feasted a war band for a year at his stronghold of Din Eidyn (Edinburgh) before sending it to fight at Catraeth, usually identified as Catterick, where almost all were killed around 600.

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