The History of Leith

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February 24, 2006

Edinburgh

The origin of the city’s name is understood to come from the Brythonic Din Eidyn (Fort of Eidyn) from the time when it was a Gododdin hillfort. In the 1st century the Romans recorded the Votadini as a British tribe in the area, and about 600 the poem Y Gododdin using the Brythonic form of that name describes warriors feasting “in Eidin’s great hall”. for more click here

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