Commemorated in the Welsh poem Y Gododdin, the Battle of Catraeth was fought at or near Catterick in the North Riding. A warband of some 300 Gododdin warriors rode south from Edinburgh to contest Anglian expansion. All but three were killed. The poem is one of the earliest surviving pieces of Welsh literature and the battle marks the consolidation of Anglian power in Yorkshire. The fall of the Britons of the north was complete.
c.300 Gododdin killed; Anglian losses unknown
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