Aneirin

/ əˈnaɪərɪn /

noun

1. 6th century _ad , Welsh poet. His Y Gododdin , preserved in The Book of Aneirin (?1250), is one of the earliest surviving Welsh poems

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"It was a great experience to be back on Sunday," said the Reverend Aneirin Glyn, of the Welsh Church of St Benet, in the City of London.

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One of the exhibits is the 13th Century Book of Aneirin, which includes a 6th Century poem describing a battle near what is now Catterick in North Yorkshire.

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They recount how 300 crack troops from Manaw Gododdin, near Edinburgh, fought the Saxons at Catterick with only three of them, including the poet Aneirin, surviving the battle.

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The 13th Century Book of Aneirin, owned by Cardiff Council and kept at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, is regarded as one of the most important books in the Welsh language.

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This book belonged originally to the priory of Black Canons at Carmarthen, from whom it passed to the church of St David; at the suppression of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII. it was presented by the treasurer of that church to Sir John Price, one of the king’s commissioners, and from him it passed eventually into the hands of Sir Robert Vaughan, the owner of the famous “Book of Aneirin.”

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