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ANEURIN, or ANEIRIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANEURIN, or ANEIRIN , the name of an See also:early 7th-See also:century See also:British (Welsh) See also:bard, who has been taken by See also:Thomas See also:Stephens (1821-1875), the editor and translator of Aneurin's See also:principal epic poem See also:God See also:odin, for a son of See also:Gildas, the historian. Gododin is an See also:account of the British defeat (603) by the See also:Saxons at Cattraeth (identified by Stephens with Dawstane in See also: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. See also:Skene in his Four See also:Ancient Books of See also:Wales (1866), and Stephens' version was published by the Cymmrodorion Society in 1888. See See also:CELT: Literature (Welsh).

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