Rhodri Mawr
Rhodri the GreatBrenin GwyneddKing of Gwynedd who brought Powys and Seisyllwg under his rule and beat back the Vikings.Brenin Gwynedd a ddaeth â Phowys a Seisyllwg dan ei reolaeth a gwrthsefyll y Llychlynwyr.
History of WalesHanes Cymru / The Age of PrincesOes y Tywysogion
fl. c. 600
Aneirin
Poet of Y Gododdin, the elegy for the warriors of Catraeth.Bardd Y Gododdin, y farwnad i ryfelwyr Catraeth.
Aneirin is named as the poet of Y Gododdin, a sequence of elegies for warriors of the Gododdin, a British people of the Edinburgh area, who fell attacking Catraeth, probably Catterick, around 600.
The poem survives in a 13th-century manuscript, Llyfr Aneirin. Written in the Welsh of the Old North, it shows that Welsh was once spoken far beyond the borders of modern Wales.
Enwir Aneirin fel bardd Y Gododdin, cyfres o farwnadau i ryfelwyr y Gododdin, pobl Frythonig o ardal Caeredin, a syrthiodd wrth ymosod ar Gatraeth tua 600.
Mae’r gerdd wedi goroesi mewn llawysgrif o’r drydedd ganrif ar ddeg, Llyfr Aneirin. Mae’n dangos bod y Gymraeg ar un adeg yn cael ei siarad ymhell y tu hwnt i ffiniau Cymru heddiw.
On the timelineAr y llinell amser
Y Gododdin
Aneirin’s elegy for warriors who fell at Catraeth, among the oldest poetry in any language of Britain.Marwnad Aneirin i’r rhyfelwyr a syrthiodd yng Nghatraeth, ymhlith y farddoniaeth hynaf mewn unrhyw iaith ym Mhrydain.
Also in this ageHefyd yn yr oes hon
Asser
Alfred’s Welsh scholarYsgolhaig Cymreig AlffredA monk of St Davids who became adviser to Alfred the Great and wrote the first biography of an English king.Mynach o Dyddewi a ddaeth yn gynghorydd i Alffred Fawr ac a ysgrifennodd y cofiant cyntaf i frenin o Sais.
Hywel Dda
Hywel the GoodBrenin y DeheubarthHis name was given to the native law of Wales, notable for women’s property rights and for compensation in place of vengeance.Rhoddwyd ei enw ar gyfraith frodorol Cymru, sy’n nodedig am hawliau eiddo i fenywod ac am iawndal yn lle dial.
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn
King of all WalesBrenin Cymru gyfanThe only king ever to rule the whole of Wales, from 1055 until he was killed by his own men.Yr unig frenin erioed i reoli Cymru gyfan, o 1055 nes iddo gael ei ladd gan ei wŷr ei hun.