Probert places the death of Aneurin in 570: the Gododin shows him to have been an eyewitness of an event which took place in 642. Davies, whose works are striking evidences of a powerful intellect completely led astray, makes the subject to have been the reported massacre at Stonehenge, which possibly never took place, but which he fixes in 472. Now I have cited a passage which, referring to Taliesin as an authority, implies that Aneurin was his junior; and Taliesin was living in 610. Again, Davies makes an abortive attempt to get rid of the last poem of Llywarch Hen, which shows him to have been living as late as the year 640, when most of his sons had fallen in battle. Llywarch himself was either at the battle of Cattraeth, or assisted in organising the campaign; for though not mentioned by Aneurin, he himself alludes to the time "when we attacked the great-smoker-of-towns (Ethelfrith)." At this battle Aneurin was taken prisoner, and confined in "an earthen house," from which he was released "by the bright sword of Cenau, the son of Llywarch." The son of Llywarch could scarcely have been living in 472; and Davies in vain essays to get rid of this obdurate fact. This passage in Aneurin-- "Under foot was gravel, Stretched out was my leg _In the subterranean house_, And an iron chain Was bound about my knees," shows the use of under-ground hovels to have extended far into the historic period. One fact more, and this demonstration that Aneurin has been ante-dated will be complete. The bard in three several places mentions a battle of Mannan, in much the same way as we at this day speak of Waterloo; and it is evident that, in the estimation of the bard and his countrymen, the battle of Mannan was the last great event before the battle of Cattraeth. The first of these passages is-- "Caeawe Cymnyviat cyvlat Erwyt . . . . . . Rae ergit _Cadfannan_ catwyt." "_Caeog_ was a conflictor with destructive pikes. . . . . . . He was preserved from the blows of Mannan-fight." _Cæog_, whom Davies converts into the adjective "adorned," was the brother of Cynddylan, Prince of Powys (_Elegies of Llywarch Hen_, p. 70.). On the death of his brother in 577, he went to North Briton; he escaped from the blows of Mannan, and _afterwards_ fell at Cattraeth. Again, of a chief named Twrch it is said:-- "He loved the battling of spears, At Mannan, and before Aldud the renowned." "Emyt af crennyt y gat waewawr Catvannan yr Aelut clodvawr." Again he says of another chief:-- "Yn dieding . . . . . Ac Adan Cadvannan cochre, Veirch marchawg goddrud y more." "Resistless As Aeddan of the blood-stained steeds of Mannan-fight, He was an impetuous rider that morning."