Also to Mr. Owen Williams of Waunfawr, for the loan of three other manuscript
copies of the Gododin. Two of them occur in the same book, which purports to
have been a transcript made by the Rev. David Ellis, the first part, A.D.
1775 of an old book, the second part, June 7, 1777, of a book supposed to
have been written by Sion Brwynog about the year 1550. In these versions the
stanzas are not divided. The third version appears in a book containing a
variety of poems and articles in prose, of which, however, the writer or
copyist is not known, though one "Davydd Thomas" is mentioned in a poor
modern hand as being the owner. Our poem is therein headed "Y Gododin.
Aneurin ae cant. Gyda nodau y Parchedig Evan Evans." These "nodau" are
marginal notes, and evidently the different readings of another version.

The different copies or versions used are distinguished as follow; -

Myvyrian ... 1
D. Ellis ... 2
Ditto ... 3
D. Thomas ... 4
E. Evans ... 5
P. Panton ... 6
E. Davies ... 7
Dr. Meyer ... 8

Nos 1 and 6 are those which are printed in the Archaiology of Wales, vol. i.
All words that differ in form or meaning, though not in orthography, from
those of No. 7, are duly arranged at the foot of the page {0l}, from which it
will be seen that 1, 2, 3, 5, generally agree one with the other, whilst 4
and 6 also for the most part go together.