The Battle of Catraeth, commemorated in the Welsh poem Y Gododdin, was fought at Catterick (Cataractonium) around 600 AD. A force of some 300 British warriors from the kingdom of Gododdin (around Edinburgh) rode south to challenge the Anglian kingdom of Deira at Catterick. They were annihilated. The poem is one of the oldest pieces of Welsh literature and one of the only contemporary accounts of a battle in Yorkshire from this period. It paints a picture of a society in which a warrior's conduct in battle was the supreme test of manhood.
According to Y Gododdin: c.300 British warriors killed; only three escaped
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