What the records say
- When
- 596
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 56.12° N, 3.19° W
- Description
- 596 hypothetical battle
Battle of Raith
Hypothetical battle of 596 AD
The Battle of Raith was the theory of E. W. B. Nicholson, librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He was aware of the poem Y Gododdin in the Book of Aneirin and was aware that no-one had identified the location "Catraeth". He parsed the name as "cat" Gaelic for battle or fight, and "Raeth" and he recalled that there was a place in Scotland called Raith.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Raith: An invading force of Angles lands on the Fife coast near Raith (Kirkcaldy) and defeats an alliance of Scots, Britons and Picts, under King…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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