biography
pronunciation:
[aniyrin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.6th–7th-c)
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| biography:
| British Celtic court poet. He was probably the author of the most famous Dark Age British poem, the Gododdin, which celebrates the British Celtic heroes killed by the Anglo-Saxons in the bloody Battle of Cattraeth (Catterick, North Yorkshire) sometime in the 6th-c. The poem's language, metrical forms, and general technique suggest a long tradition of praise-poetry in British Celtic. His compositions are contained in a manuscript, the Book of Aneirin (13th-c). |
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