1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aneurin

ANEURIN, or Aneirin, the name of an early 7th-century British (Welsh) bard, who has been taken by Thomas Stephens (1821–1875), the editor and translator of Aneurin’s principal epic poem Gododin, for a son of Gildas, the historian. Gododin is an account of the British defeat (603) by the Saxons at Cattraeth (identified by Stephens with Dawstane in Liddesdale), where Aneurin is said to have been taken prisoner; but the poem is very obscure and is differently interpreted. It was translated and edited by W. F. Skene in his Four Ancient Books of Wales (1866), and Stephens’ version was published by the Cymmrodorion Society in 1888. See Celt: Literature (Welsh).