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Aneirin
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Aneirin

Welsh poet. He wrote the core of the epic poem Y Gododdin (c. 600), one of the earliest known poems in Welsh. It describes a battle at Catraeth (Catterick) where the British tribe from Dun Edin (Edinburgh) were heavily defeated by the Northumbrians.



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But the speaker in this case was Aneurin Bevan, one of the moral and political giants of the European Left.
And then he became, as his most severe critic, the Labour radical Aneurin Bevan, put it, "the great advocate who put the case of Britain to the world and the destiny of Britain to the British.
He chose the bardic name of ap Aneurin, a tribute both to a 6th-century Welsh poet and to Aneurin Bevan, the Labour Party politician who founded the National Health Service.
 
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