In the period before the Battle of Catraeth celebrated in the poem Y Gododdin, Æthelfrith conducted campaigns against the British kingdoms of the north. The poem records a catastrophic British defeat at Catraeth around 600 where a war-band from the Gododdin was annihilated. While the battle likely falls in Scotland, the campaigns in the Yorkshire Dales are England-based.
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