Aneirin or Neirin was a late 6th century Brythonic poet. He is believed to have been a bard or 'court poet' in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Old North or Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th century,...

Aneirin was a late 6th or early 7th century Brythonic poet from the Hen Ogledd , the Cumbric -speaking regions of northern Britain. His poem Y Gododdin , an elegy for those British warriors who fell in the disastrous battle of Cattraeth , survives only...