Aneirin

Aneirin
OccupationPoet
Notable workBook of Aneirin, including Y Gododdin

Aneirin (Welsh pronunciation: [aˈnɛirɪn]), also rendered as Aneurin or Neirin and Aneurin Gwawdrydd, was an early Medieval Brythonic war poet who lived during the 6th century. He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th century, he was usually known as Aneurin.[1][2]

  1. ^ Miller, Arthur (1885). "Aneurin". In Dictionary of National Biography. 1. London. pp. 411-412.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aneurin". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 4.