Battle of Raith
| Battle of Raith | |||||||
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Gaels Picts Britons | Angles | ||||||
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| King Aedan | Unknown | ||||||
TheBattle of Raithwas the theory ofE. W. B. Nicholson,librarian at theBodleian Library,Oxford. He was aware of the poemY Gododdinin theBook of Aneirinand was aware that no-one had identified the location "Catraeth".He parsed the name as" cat "Gaelicforbattleorfight,and "Raeth" and he recalled that there was a place in Scotland calledRaith.[1][2]
Nicholson's claim was that this battle was fought in 596 AD to the west of present-dayKirkcaldy.An invading force ofAngleslanded on theFifecoast[3]nearRaithand defeated an alliance ofScots,BritonsandPictsunder KingÁedán mac GabráinofDál Riata.
Today the location of theBattle of Catraethis usually recognised instead asCatterick.
Nicholson's proposition was given added circulation when it was included in the local history book "Kirkcaldy Burgh and Schyre"[4]by its editor and co-author Lachlan Macbean.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^The Celtic Review, Vol. 6 No. 23 (January 1910) pp214-236
- ^"The Celtic review".Edinburgh: Macleod – via Internet Archive.
- ^"596 A.D. - The Battle of Raith | made by young people at Makewaves".Radiowaves.co.uk. 21 May 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 23 December 2012.Retrieved8 September2012.
- ^"Kirkcaldy Burgh and Schyre" (1924) pp42/3 published by the Fifeshire Advertiser (Macbean was also the paper's editor).
- ^"Lachlan Macbean".The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology.Canterbury Press.
- ^"excerpt fromKirkcaldy Burgh and Schyre".Electricscotland.com.Retrieved8 September2012.
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