11 Facts About Eidyn

Eidyn was the region around modern Edinburgh in Britain's sub-Roman and early medieval periods, approximately the 5th–7th centuries.

Site of Din Eidyn has been nearly continuously occupied since the Bronze Age, serving as a stronghold of the Votadini during the Roman era and later the principal centre of their successors, the Gododdin kingdom.

Place-name evidence suggests Eidyn spread more widely, surviving in the name of Carriden, located eighteen miles to the west.

Kenneth H Jackson argued strongly that Eidyn referred exclusively to Din Eidyn, suggesting a different origin for Carriden.

Eidyn is the source of the name of Edinburgh in English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

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Eidyn is evidently the original form of the name, though Eiddyn appears in later poetry.

Koch suggested that the Eidyn ruler was Ureui or Gwylget Gododdin, who are mentioned in the text.

Eidyn appears to have remained in Anglian hands for most of the next three centuries, although historical and archaeological evidence is scant, and it is unclear if a fortress remained at Din Eidyn.

Eidyn remained prominent in Brittonic tradition long after its conquest by the Angles.

Similarly, Welsh Triad 33 includes a certain Llawgat Trwm Bargod Eidyn, who killed Afaon, son of Taliesin, in one of the "Three Unfortunate Slaughters of the Island of Britain".

Additionally, figures associated with Eidyn, including Clyddno Eidyn and his son Cynon ap Clydno – a survivor of Catraeth – featured in poetry, the Welsh Triads, and Arthurian material throughout the Middle Ages.