be interpolations. One stanza in particular has received attention because it compares one of the fallen warriors to King Arthur. This, if not a later interpolation, would be the earliest known reference to the character. Welsh Bard Aneirin, who is believed to be the author, was also present at the Battle of Catraeth and was one of the only two-to-four Welsh survivors. Aneirin remained a captive until his ransom was paid by Ceneu ap Llywarch Hen. Y Gododdin has survived in only one manuscript, the 13th century Book of Aneirin. The Battle of Brunanburh The Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937 between an army led by Æthelstan, Anglo-Saxon King of England and his brother Edmund Atheling and an allied army led by Olaf Guthfrithson, the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin; Constantine II King of Scotland, and Owain ap Dyfnwal, the Welsh King of Strathclyde. The battle resulted in an overwhelming victory by King Æthelstan. According to Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson, the saga's anti-hero, the Icelandic berserker, sorcerer, and poet Egill Skallagrímsson fought in the battle as an elite mercenary soldier for King Æthelstan. Egill is also said to have composed a drápa in honor of the King, which is quoted in full in the text of the Saga. The Battle of Brunanburh is also celebrated by an Old English poem of the same name in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which in 1880 was translated into modern English, in a metrical mixture of Trochees and dactyls, by Alfred Tennyson. Muslim conquest of Armenia Armenia's national epic, Sasna Tsrer (Daredevils of Sassoun), is set during the time of the invasion of Armenia by the Caliphate of Baghdad (about 670), and focuses on the resistance of four generations within the same family, which culminates with Armenian folk hero David of Sasun driving the Muslim invaders from Armenia. It was collected and written down from the oral tradition by Fr. Garegin Srvandztiants, a celibate priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in 1873. The epic was first published in Constantinople in 1874. It is better known as Sasuntsi Davit ("David of Sasun"). Six decades later, Manuk Abeghian, a scholar of Armenian literature and folklore rendered an almost equally valuable service by collecting nearly all fifty variants of the epic in three scholarly volumes published by the State Publishing House in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia in 1936, 1944 (part l) and 1951 (part ll), under the general