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:: THE FIRST AND LAST STANDS OF THE CELTS IN BRITAIN ::
Like Inca Sky in the previous gallery, these images are taken from one large format image. This piece commemorates two great battles in the history of Britain: the Battle of the Trees and the Battle of Catraeth. The former was fought in Wiltshire and is remembered in the Welsh poem Cad Goddeu, the latter was fought in Yorkshire and is remembered by Aneirin's elegiac poem Y Gododdin. In the Battle of the Trees, the incoming Celts (personified by Gwydion) defeated the armies of the native Ancient Britons by guessing the name of their God, Bran, and thus won the sovereignty of the island of Britain. In the Battle of Catraeth a millenium later, the Romano-Celtic chieftains of the Gododdin were slain by the incoming Saxon invaders, and this battle proved the turning point which eventually led to the Saxonisation of much of Britain. Both battles are here overlain and depicted as a single story. |
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