Aneurin

Breton language

It composed in the Breton Langue of its time (brythoneg), nowadays called Brittonique (term created at the 19th century), or old Welsh, whose modern Welsh is the language nearest. Some even advance as it would have composed in an extinct language Celtic, the Cambrien, which would show that there would be hardly difference between this cambrien and the Breton one of North in general and the Breton one of Wales, called by the suire " gallois". Its work is preserved in a manuscript of the 13th century known under the name of Llyfr Aneirin ( Livre of Aneirin ), of which the partially modernized language was retranscribed in average Welsh.

Y Gododdin

Its work the best known one is Y Gododdin , a series of elegies for the warriors of the Scandinavian kingdom Breton of Gododdin who fell against the Saxons in the battle from Catraeth (probably Catterick in Yorkshire or of Dawstane in Liddlesdale) in 603, although poetries are very obscure and interpretations changeantes. One of poetries contains what one thinks of being the first reference to Arthur with which a fallen warrior is compared. It may be that Aneirin fought in this battle and was made there prisoner.

Y Gododdin was published and translated, with many the errors, by William Forbes Skene in her << Four Ancient Books off Wales >> (Four books ancient of the Wales: 1866), and by Thomas Stephens (1821 - 1875), published by the company of Cymmrodorion in 1888. Stephens believed that the poet was a son of the historian Saint Gildas at the 6th century. Lastly, the Welsh scholar Ifor Williams published the work of Aneirin definitively in his chief of work << Canu Aneirin >> (1938).

First name

the Aneurin first name is a first name enough running to the Wales, it was carried by the member of the Labor Party Aneurin Bevan, a Welsh politician of the 20th century.
One finds it in Brittany in the form Nerin, éponyme of Plounérin in Trégor. It is also a first name carried locally.

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