Mynyddog Mwynfawr

Mynyddawg Mwynfawr (also spelled Mynyddog) is a person, or place, appearing in the early Welsh language poem Y Gododdin, attributed to Aneirin. Mynyddawg Mwynfawr, if translated as a personal name, means Mynddawwg the Wealthy, and if considered a place means approximately Wealthy Mountain.

The traditional reading of Y Gododdin is that Mynyddawg is king of Gododdin, perhaps with his court at Din Eidyn, modern Edinburgh. He appears as the sponsor of the warband that fought at the battle of Catraeth in the early Welsh poem Y Gododdin, by Aneirin.

An alternative interpretation, advanced by John Koch, is that Mynyddawg Mwynfawr is a kenning or personification which represents Din Eidyn, Gododdin, or perhaps the entire Old North, and that Gwlyget, described as Mynyddawg's steward, is the ruler of Gododdin.

Sources

• Rachel Bromwich (ed.), Trioedd Ynys Prydein (University of Wales Press, 1978; new edition, 1991)
• Chris Lowe, Angels, Fools and Tyrants: Britons and Saxons in Southern Scotland (Canongate Books and Historic Scotland, 1999)
• Ifor Williams (ed.), Canu Aneirin (University of Wales Press, 1958). The standard edition of Y Gododdin.