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I'm new to wikipedia, but felt I had to correct the erroneous information that Edwin captured the Gododdin fort in 638. Edwin had been dead for 5 years by this date and Oswald was ruling Northumbria. It is thought that it was Oswald who took Edinburgh as part of his efforts to consolidate his Kingdom, therefore I have made the change. However, even this fact is dubious - I don't have my research notes to hand right now, but I believe the idea of Oswald destroying the Gododdin is a theory based on the interpretation of a single ambiguous line in an old chronicle. While I think it makes a good story and fits the known facts (the Gododdin vanish from history around the time Oswald gains power), it should be noted it is conjecture.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject European history, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the
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I'm new to wikipedia, but felt I had to correct the erroneous information that Edwin captured the Gododdin fort in 638. Edwin had been dead for 5 years by this date and Oswald was ruling Northumbria. It is thought that it was Oswald who took Edinburgh as part of his efforts to consolidate his Kingdom, therefore I have made the change. However, even this fact is dubious - I don't have my research notes to hand right now, but I believe the idea of Oswald destroying the Gododdin is a theory based on the interpretation of a single ambiguous line in an old chronicle. While I think it makes a good story and fits the known facts (the Gododdin vanish from history around the time Oswald gains power), it should be noted it is conjecture.
