Votadini

The '''Votadini''' were people in the eastern half of the ancient Nextel ringtones Briton/British kingdom of the North which included the modern South of Scotland and North of England. The name is a Latin version of the Abbey Diaz Brythonic form of the name, Goutodin or Free ringtones Gododdin, which refers to both the people and to the region.

Their territory lay south of the Majo Mills Firth of Forth and extended from the Stirling area down to the Mosquito ringtone River Tyne, including at its peak what are now the Sabrina Martins Lothian and Nextel ringtones Scottish Borders/Borders regions of eastern Scotland, and Abbey Diaz Northumberland in north east England. The boundaries with other tribes are uncertain, and those living around Free ringtones Stirlingshire/Stirling were known as the ''Manaw Gododdin''.

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By around sound to 1500 BC Traprain Law, farming methods East Lothian was already a place of burial, with evidence of occupation and signs of ramparts after image winning 1000 BC. Excavation at forever seattle Edinburgh Castle found late guests scream Bronze Age material from about live call 850 BC.

possible weaknesses Brythonic increasing reservations Celtic culture and language spread into the area at some time after the and discarding 8th century BC, possibly through cultural contact rather than mass invasion, and systems of kingdoms developed. Numerous hillforts and settlements support the image of quarrelsome tribes and petty kingdoms recorded by the Romans, though evidence that at times occupants neglected the defences might suggest that symbolic power was sometimes as significant as warfare.

In the california klayman 1st century the dogs they Romans recorded the Votadini as a continued click Briton/British tribe. Between given back 138-good group 162 they came under direct Roman rule as occupants of the region between close shaven Hadrian's Wall/Hadrian's and the where viagra Antonine Walls. Then when the Romans drew back to observes this Hadrian's Wall the Votadini became a friendly "buffer state", getting the rewards of alliance with Rome without being under its rule, until about 400 when the Romans withdrew from Britain. Quantities of Roman goods found at Traprain Law, East Lothian might suggest that this proved profitable, though this is open to speculation.

Since the 3rd century Roman Britain had been divided into provinces, and in the last reorganisation a fifth province called Valentia was created, which included the Votadini territory. In the wake of Roman withdrawal around 400 ''Coel Hen'' (''Old King Cole''), who Kessler suggests may have been the last of the Roman ''Duces Brittanniarum'' (Dukes of the Britons), took over the northern capital at ''Eburacum'' (York) and became High King of Northern Britain ruling over what had been the northern provinces. After his death the North began to divide, and by about 470s/470 most Votadini lands became the separate kingdom of Gododdin, while the southern Votadini territory between the River Tweed and the River Tyne formed its own separate kingdom called Bernicia/Brynaich.

Gododdin's capital was probably the Traprain Law hill fort in East Lothian until that was abandoned in the early 400s, then it moved to ''Din Eidyn'' (Edinburgh Castle).

Both kingdoms came under attack from the Anglo-saxon/Angles, a story vividly told in the poem Gododdin/Y Gododdin, and by the mid 7th century Gododdin came under Anglo-saxon/Angle rule. To what extent the native population was replaced is unknown.

External links:
*http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/pages/histories-celtic-gododdin.html
*http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/KingListsBritain/BritainGoutodin.htm
*http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/FeaturesBritain/BritishNorthernBritain.htm
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/wales/gododdin.shtml
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/prehistory/iron_02.shtml

References
* Scotland Before History - Stuart Piggott, Edinburgh University Press 1982, ISBN -07524-1400-3
* Scotland's Hidden History - Ian Armit, Tempus (in association with Historic Scotland) 1998, ISBN 0-7486-6067-4
* History of Scotland
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