Abstract
EARLY WELSH POETRY, with so many tantalising clues for North Britain’s pre-English history, has a special one in the court of Rhosedd, famous for its splendour. The bards referred to it for centuries, but its whereabouts has been a mystery. The evidence occurs in various poems, including the gorchan or lay of Tudfwlch found with the Gododdin, which is a series of elegies on British heroes wiped out in an attack on Catterick soon after the year 600. Rhosedd figures in a passage where the hero Tudfawlch is mourned as a generous host:
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