World of Britannia by M. J. Trow

Author:M. J. Trow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
Published: 2020-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

THE UFFINGTON WHITE Horse, Oxfordshire. Carved into the hillside to reveal the chalk, this was probably a tribal totem and was adopted nearly two thousand years later by the Berkshire Yeomanry. County boundaries have since changed so that Uffington is now in Oxfordshire.

Gabrantovices

A shadowy group referred to by Ptolemy that perhaps lived in today’s Yorkshire. They may have been a sub-group of the

Brigantes.

Gododdin (Votadini)

The tribe lived north of Hadrian’s Wall in the Britannia period and their capital was Din Paladyr, today’s Traprain Law. The Romans called them the Votadini and they were effectively a buffer state between the northern province of Britannia Secunda and the Picts of the Highlands. Various archaeological finds at Traprain and elsewhere indicate a degree of trade with the empire.

The sixth century epic poem Y Gododdin by the bard Aneurin was written at a time when the tribe was migrating south to Wales. Their original homeland was referred to as Hen Ogledd (Old North) and their arrival in Wales, possibly under Cunedda, is regarded by some as the beginning of an independent Welsh culture.

Selgovae

Only Ptolemy mentions this tribe. They probably lived in what is today south-western Scotland north of Hadrian’s Wall – present-day Kirkcudbright and Dumfries. Ptolemy refers to four civitates by name, but these were probably army camps built to maintain the Pax Romana after Agricola’s campaigns in the first century. It may be that the Selgovae were a sub-group of the Brigantes south of the Wall. There is strong evidence to suggest that the Selgovae and the Gododdin provided arcani (the secret ones) as spies and scouts in the Britannia era.

Trinovantes

A tribe living in today’s Essex and Suffolk, they may have been the most powerful of the tribes in Julius Caesar’s time. Their capital was possibly originally at Braughing in Hertfordshire, today a small village, but archaeology has not confirmed this. By the time of Britannia, it was Caesaromagus, Chelmsford, with another important base at Camulodunum, Colchester.

Votadini – see Gododdin

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