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).