{"id":84,"date":"2015-09-26T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2015\/09\/26\/aneurin-aneirin-goddodin\/"},"modified":"2015-09-26T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:52:00","slug":"aneurin-aneirin-goddodin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2015\/09\/26\/aneurin-aneirin-goddodin\/","title":{"rendered":"Aneurin – Aneirin (Goddodin)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nMaterial from W.H. Burnett’s<\/b> Old Cleveland – Local Writers and Local Worthies<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\nWilliam Hall Burnett <\/b>in Middlesbrough 1886 says “We may fairly claim that hereabouts English Literature had its first beginning.” <\/i>He begins with <\/span>Aneirin<\/span> and <\/span>Y Gododdin (spellings vary in different texts)<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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\nThis is Robin Williamson’<\/b>s reading of Y Gododdin, from his album, Five Legendary Histories of Britain.<\/i><\/div>\n
\n600AD<\/i>
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\n“Aneirin [a\u02c8n\u025bir\u026an]<\/a> or Neirin was an early Medieval Brythonic<\/a> poet. He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric<\/a> kingdoms of the Old North or Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin<\/a> at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th century, his name was often incorrectly spelled “Aneurin”.” https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aneirin<\/a> William Hall Burnett <\/b>spells it the incorrect way here.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

\nWilliam Hall Burnett<\/b> – poet and editor of the Middlesbrough Daily Exchange<\/i> – wrote, in his book Old Cleveland – Local Writers and Local Worthies<\/i> in 1886 on the subject of the Celtic bard Aneurin – (Alternatively spelt Ane<\/span><\/h3>\n
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“<\/span>The warrior bard, <\/span>Aneurin, must, in the old Celtic days have been resident within this immediate district, so that we may fairly claim that hereabouts English Literature had its first beginning. It is a least a fair conjecture that the first of English epic poems were strung together, line by line and verse by verse by a bard who, wandering amongst the valleys of the Swale, might now and again visit the fair plain of Cleveland in the golden east. To <\/span>Aneurin is ascribed the important fragment of celtic literature, The Gododin, being a lament for the dead who fell in the battle of Cattraeth, identified with Catterick in Yorkshire, where Cymry met the advancing and invading Teutons at the ‘confluence of rivers’ and fought with them unsuccessfully for seven days….<\/span><\/i>“<\/span><\/h3>\n

Also from W H Burnett<\/b><\/p>\n

This is where the Cymry met the advancing and invading Teutons at the ‘confluence of rivers’ and fought with them unsuccessfully for seven days, being at length worsted with fearful slaughter. Of this battle The Gododin tells us –<\/p>\n

“The warriors marched to Cattraeth with the day;
In the stillness of night they had quaffed the white mead;
They were wretched, though prophesied glory and sway
Had winged ambition. Were none there to lead
To Cattreath with loftier hope in their speed?
Secure in their boast, they would scatter the host
Bold standard in hand; no other such band
Went from Eiddin as this, that would rescue the land
From the troops of the ravagers. Far from the sight
of home that was dear to them, ere they too perished,
Tudvwlch Hir Slew the Saxons in seven days fight,
He owed not the freedom of life to his might,
but dear is his memory where he was cherished,
When Tudvwlch amain came to that post to maintain,
By the son of Kilydd, the blood covered the plain.” <\/p>\n

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\nThe pdf contains excerpts from the <\/span>Y Gododdin<\/b> but below is a link to the full text online.<\/span><\/div>\n
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PDF Click the arrow to enlarge and read or download free.<\/b><\/p>\n

\nRead the poem here http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/9842?msg=welcome_stranger<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Wiki https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y_Gododdin<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

I’m not sure where I sourced this from in 2005 when I did the original post but it’s interesting –
\n“Gododin<\/b><\/p>\n

\nThe vulgar opinion is
\nthat the Britons lost the battle in consequence of having marched to
\nthe field in a state of intoxication; and it must be admitted that
\nthere are many passages in the Poem, which, simply considered, would
\nseem to favour that view.  Nevertheless, granting that the 363
\nchieftains had indulged too freely in their favourite beverage, it is
\nhardly credible that the bulk of the army, on which mainly depended
\nthe destiny of the battle, had the same opportunity of rendering
\nthemselves equally incapacitated, or, if we suppose that all had
\nbecome so, that they did not recover their sobriety in seven days! 
\nThe fact appears to be, that Aneurin in the instances alluded to,
\nintends merely to contrast the social and festive habits of his
\ncountrymen at home with their lives of toil and privation in war,
\nafter a practise common to the Bards, not only of that age, but
\nsubsequently.  Or it may be that the banquet, at which the
\nBritish leaders were undoubtedly entertained in the hall of Eiddin,
\nwas looked upon as the sure prelude to war, and that in that sense
\nthe mead and wine were to them as poison.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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