Y Gododdin - Welsh Celtic Song

Music & vocals by Farya Faraji, poem attributed to Aneirin. Please note that this isn’t reconstructed period music, only modern music with an ancient theme. After covering Old Irish and Gaulish, I wanted to do a song in Old Welsh; Welsh being my favourite Celtic language of the bunch. I decided to put to music some verses from the epic Y Gododdin, which may be the earliest known piece of preserved Welsh literature. The poem was written somewhere between the 7th and 11th centuries, and is traditionally attributed to a figure named Aneirin, who was a Brythonic poet of the 6th century A.D. It consists of elegies to Brythonic warriors who banded together somewhere in the 500’s, in the Hen Ogledd region, or the “Old North,“ a region crystallised in medieval Celtic memory as one of the last strongholds of Celtic resistance against the invading Anglo-Saxons at the twilight of Antiquity. Indeed, the poem’s story details the heroic defeat of the Brythonic Celts at the hand of t