Professor Rob Collins

And it's not in Wales.

It's here.

And we can see there are all these princes that are ascribed to different tribes.

So you have to remember that it's in Welsh.

So it's E Gododdon, Y space, G-O-D-D-O-D-D.

D-I-D-D-I-N.

Right, yes.

Or Y-N on some spellings.

And that's what becomes the Welsh name of the Vodadini, who we have mentioned before, who we associate with Traprain Law.

Just beneath Edinburgh, yes.

And so, you know, if we... One of the challenges of this period of late antiquity or the Dark Ages or the Age of Arthur or the Birth of English Acts in England, whatever name you want to give to it,

we have these kind of tantalizing sources, none of which are particularly accurate and none of which we can treat as history.

And sifting out what are the grains of truth from later literary elaboration is always a challenge.

But there's these little breadcrumbs and hints that... Wow.

I think I would say absolutely yes.

I have colleagues, you know, other esteemed doctorally trained people who might argue otherwise, and that is great.

That's what is really good about scholarship.

We

debate the evidence, and that helps us think critically and fresh.

I think the key thing is if we look at the evidence that we have from the Roman forts, and not just along Hadrian's Wall, but elsewhere in the wider frontier region, the legionary fortress in York, at Catterick, the fort in Catterick, Maryport on the coast of Cumbria,