human
O ved O vuelin, O Gattraeth werin, Mi a na vi Aneurin Ys gwyr Taliesin, Oveg cyvrenhin Neu cheing Ododin Cyn gwawr dydd dilin.
gpt
Of mead from the mead horn, Of the host of Cattraeth, I, Aneurin, will do What is known to Taliesin, A man of kindred disposition. Will I not sing of what befell Gododin, before the break of day?
human
Mead brought shame on the best of armies; and the chiefs, on account of temporary success over a part of Ethelfrith's Northumbrian army, spent the night in wild carousal. Overtures of peace were made to them by Ethelfrith, and contemptuously rejected; they rushed pell-mell to battle _before the break of day_; and the bard, seeing them falling helplessly drunk from their horses,
gpt
I here assume that Cattraeth and Cataract are the same place; and to cite only one of many evidences, the position of the Ottadini in the immediate neighbourhood of Catterick, lends this view strong confirmation. But there is here another assumption, to which I invite the attention of English antiquaries. The _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ relates the occurrence of a great battle between Ethelfrith of Northumbria and the northern Britons in the year 603: of that battle the site is variously named Degstan, Dægsanstane, and Egesanstane; but antiquarian researches have not determined where Egesanstane was. Some place it at Dawston, near Jedburg, in Scotland, and others at Dalston in Cumberland; but all confess uncertainty. Now I assume that the place called Egesanstane is more likely to be Siggeston, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which is about five or six miles east of Catterick; and this conjecture is strongly supported by the fact that Ethelfrith in this case was not the invader but the invaded, as it is said,
human
Hering, the son of Hussa, led the enemy thither,